defunctive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of defunctive
Example Sentences
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There in orphic rapture he touches a dark string in his nature, and a rich defunctive music rises to the page: Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear Sparkling armada of promises draw near .
From Time Magazine Archive
Like D. H. Lawrence, Sansom plays his defunctive music undersea on the G string of sex, but class composes the melody.
From Time Magazine Archive
And once more, in “The Phœnix and Turtle:” “Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right.”
From Project Gutenberg
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
From Project Gutenberg
Defunctive music under sea Passed seaward with the passing bell Slowly: the God Hercules Had left him, that had loved him well.
From Project Gutenberg
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