Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rebellowing; loudly resounding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Rebellowing; resounding loudly.

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  • noun reverberating or resounding loudly.

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Examples

  • The boys are at marbles, if it is muddy enough, or one-old-cat, or pom-pom-peel-away, with the normal percentage of them in reboant tears -- that is to say, one in three.

    Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

  • Ista tua Carmina Chamouniana satis grandia esse mihi constat; sed hoc mihi nonnihil displicet, quòd in iis illae montium Grisosonum inter se responsiones totidem reboant anglice, _God, God_, haud aliter atque temet audivi tuas monies Cumbrianas resonare docentes, _Tod, Tod_, nempe

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

  • S3S reboant citharis templa 2. reboat 4. 548 recidere i. 857 l S« Mi 1 1« recedant 4. 63,

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • Aut reboant raycumRetrocita cornua bombiuf fo Vallibus & CyCni gfelidis orti ex Heliconis Cum liquidam toitunt lugubri voce querelara.

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • The fishing-boats were out, he could hear the men, their reboant calls, but he couldn’t see them.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • The fishing-boats were out, he could hear the men, their reboant calls, but he couldn’t see them.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • ] [Footnote 46: "Vibrantur bombardarum fulmina, Tartariæ volvuntur nubes, Martem sonant crepitacula, reboant summa montium juga, reboant valles, reboant undæ, claraque Nautarum percellit sydara clamor."

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Of reboant whirlwinds;’ and to the question, ‘Why not believe, then?’ we have as answer a simile of the sea, which cannot slumber like a mountain tarn, or

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

  • £sicere, tunc vocant puellas confccratas, & cum illis in confpedu idolorum choreas ducunt, atque magnos & inconditos reboant cantus.

    Collectanea de rebus hibernicis .. 1786

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  • reboantrebellowing; resounding loudly

    July 22, 2008

  • So warm and with sweet scents so redolent,

    And where is so private yet resonant?

    To feel music’s power

    We sing in the shower,

    A chamber most cozy and reboant.

    January 31, 2018