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
The lane went back to a barred gate, became defunctive in grass, a mere path scarred quietly into new grass.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can, Be the death-defying swan, Lest the requiem lack his right.
From The Phoenix and the Turtle by Shakespeare, William
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 Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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