What's the difference between plangency and plangent?
Plangency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.
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Plangent
Definition:
(a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Justice Leveson's most plangent question begins to be answered.
(2) From 1957 the plangent voices of the Everly Brothers rang out to herald the birth of the rock'n'roll age in America, with songs such as Wake Up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown and All I Have to Do Is Dream.
(3) As he told this story, a colourfully dressed woman walked by, singing in a plangent voice, accompanied by a man on a portable electronic keyboard.
(4) The Bake Off may have appealed to a nation that, in economically bleak times, cleaved to domestic comforts, but it has also tapped into a plangent sense of Britishness, one that recalls some unspecified and ungraspable past.
(5) Three films into his career, he has already established a recognisable sensibility (dryly funny, inquisitive, plangent) and been honoured with a retrospective at the Irish Film Institute .
(6) In the plangent words of Anna Pasternak, "it was too beautiful a love to remain a secret".