REBOANT ADJ. resounding, reverberating; loudly echoing ...1830 chiefly literary and poetic usage ETYMOLOGY from Latin reboant-, reboāns, present participle of reboāre (to re-echo, to resound, to call or cry in answer) from re- + boāre (to bellow) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1830 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Wert thou, and yet unheard. What if Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive Thru' utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, Unpiloted i' the echoing dance Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low Unto the death, not sunk! I know At matins and at evensong..." From: Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind (Original title: Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind not in Unity with Itself) - Alfred Tennyson
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