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reboant en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin reboō (“bellow, resound”).

Meanings

1. (poetic) That reverberates or resounds loudly.
   • She expected reboant halls and a ghoulishly scarred Slavic dwarf on call to fetch brains or whatever the mad scientist-in-chief wanted. 2009, Jesse Kellerman, Sunstroke, unnumbered page:
   • The fragmentary poems in The Branch Will Not Break afford many analogies to this kind of poem, in which the energy of constatation is not allowed to run out into verse, into some kind of normative, reboant movement, but is instead checked, baffled, splintered:[…]. 1990, Richard Hoard, “James Wright: “The Body Wakes to Burial””, in Peter Stitt, Frank Graziano, editors, Under Discussion: James Wright: The Heart of the Light, page 271:
   • 19th C, Alfred Tennyson, Supposed Confessions, The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1994, page 15, What if / Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive / Through utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, / Unpiloted i' the echoing dance / Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low / Unto the death, not sunk!
   • […]this scrolled silver rim of wash striking the shore first in the distance, then spreading all along the curve of the beach, its growing thunder and commotion now joined to the diminishing thunder of the train, and now breaking reboant on our beach[…] 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 37:

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reboation