reboant

[ reb-oh-uhnt ]

adjective

1. resounding or reverberating loudly.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reboant¹

1820–30; < Latin reboant- (stem of reboāns, present participle of reboāre to resound), equivalent to re- re- + bo ( āre ) to cry aloud (cognate with Greek boân ) + -ant- -ant

Example Sentences

Reboant, reb′ō-ant, adj. rebellowing: loudly resounding.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Si non aurea sunt juvenum simulacra per ædes, Lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris, Lumina nocturnis epulis ut suppeditentur, Nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet, Nec citharæ reboant laqueata aurataque tecta; Quum tamen inter se, prostrati in gramine molli, Propter aquæ rivum, sub ramis arboris altæ, Non magnis opibus jucunde corpora curant: Præsertim, quum tempestas arridet, et anni Tempora conspargunt viridantes floribus herbas: Nec calidæ citius decedunt corpore febres, Textilibus si in picturis, ostroque rubenti, Jaceris, quam si plebeiâ in veste cubandum est.”—II.

From Project Gutenberg

The vocabulary is wilfully and tastelessly unusual,—"abele" rhymed "abeel" for "poplar"; American forms such as "human" for "humanity" and "weaken" for a neuter verb; fustianish words like "reboant"; awkward suggestions of phrase, such as "droppings of warm tears."

From Project Gutenberg

Mora tarda mente cedat: simul ite, sequimini 20Phrygiam ad domum Cybebes, Phrygia ad nemora deae, Vbi cymbalum sonat vox, ubi tympana reboant, Tibicen ubi canit Phryx curvo grave calamo, Vbi capita Maenades vi iaciunt ederigerae, Vbi sacra sancta acutis ululatibus agitant, 25Vbi suevit illa divae volitare vaga cohors: Quo nos decet citatis celerare tripudiis.'

From Project Gutenberg

Euphemia had an ear for it; whim also to construe lord and master relaxed but reboant and soaring above the verbal to harmonic truths of abstract or transcendental, to be hummed subsequently by privileged female audience of one bent on a hook-or-crook plucking out of pith for salvation.

From Project Gutenberg