ululant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ululant
1865–70; < Latin ululant- (stem of ululāns ), present participle of ululāre. See ululate, -ant
Example Sentences
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From the floor a ululant howling roared; brokers milled around; pages and messengers doubled around huddles of bidding brokers; brokers chanted a litany of bids & asks at each other, and sweated like the marching monks in Tannh�user.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their church services according to their own accounts, must have been cyclones of hysteria, with the preacher sobbing and streaming, and the congregation in a state of ululant frenzy, with men and women fainting on all sides.
From Project Gutenberg
Nay, so confident was he, that when he had opened the door he stood an instant on the threshold viewing the strange scene, and quoted with an appreciation as strange— "At domus interior gemitu miseroque tumultu Miscetur, penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes Femineis ululant; ferit aurea sidera clamor"— from his favourite poet.
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He burst out laughing, after a doubtful and ululant fashion, I dare say; but he went home, took up his auld wife, and played 'Tullochgorum' some fifty times over, with extemporized variations.
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The clergy, he confessed, were not what he wished them to be, but they were better than Quakers, naked and ululant.
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