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Resounding   /risˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Resound  v. t.  
1.
To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
2.
To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. "The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound."
Synonyms: To echo; reecho; reverberate; sound.


Resound  v. i.  (past & past part. resounded; pres. part. resounding)  
1.
To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
2.
To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
3.
To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame... resounds back to them again."
4.
To be mentioned much and loudly.
5.
To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.





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"Resounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bell aloft in the Catholic Cathedral, weeping the death of day. "Lead Kindly Light!" sang the voices of the virgins and the children in the Protestant temple, resounding through the twilight ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... in the House, and he it was who received the blow from Colonel Saunderson's clenched fist. Mr. Austin fell, and immediately Mr. Crean rushed forward, and in quick succession gave Colonel Saunderson two hard and resounding blows—one ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor
... lock, and Crispin answered it with a resounding snore. The door opened, and on the threshold stood the Roundhead trooper, holding aloft a lanthorn whose rays were flashed back by his polished cuirass. He beheld Crispin on the bed with closed eyes and open mouth, and he heard his reassuring and melodious snore. He saw Kenneth seated ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... bless dear mamma, God bless dear grandmamma, God bless dear grandpapa, God bless dear Lucy, God bless dear Jenny, God bless our dear friends everywhere," he repeated in a resounding voice. ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... a pet donkey was under my window, where he had uniformly slept in profound silence. But one glorious moonlight night, probably to arouse me to enjoy with him the exquisite beauty of our surroundings, he put his nose through this aperture and gave one of the most prolonged, resounding brays I ever heard. Startled from a deep sleep, I was so frightened that at first I could not move. My next impulse was to rush out and arouse the family, but, seeing a dark head in the window, I thought I would slam down the heavy sash and check the ...
— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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