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ring the welkins en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of make the welkin ring.
    • Now it ill becomes those who sneer at the stridency of our partisanship to change “the party line” on one another without warning — as in poor Browder’s case — and then ring the welkins, on one side, with the most intemperate denunciations and, on the other side — especially in Russia — with the most abject breast-beatings of confessed guilt. 1953, T.V. Smith, “Democratic Apologetics”, in Ethics, LXIII, № 2 (January 1953), pages 103-4:

Forms

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rang the welkins Tense=Past lexicographic
rung the welkins Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rings the welkins Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ringing the welkins Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic