ululant
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Ululating; howling; hooting or screeching, as an owl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Howling; wailing.
Examples
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Their church services according to their own accounts, must have been cyclones of hysteria, with the preacher sobbing and streaming, and the congregation in a state of ululant frenzy, with men and women fainting on all sides.
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The clergy, he confessed, were not what he wished them to be, but they were better than Quakers, naked and ululant.
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He burst out laughing, after a doubtful and ululant fashion, I dare say; but he went home, took up his auld wife, and played 'Tullochgorum' some fifty times over, with extemporized variations.
Note
The word 'ululant' comes from a Latin word meaning 'howl, yell'.
