Meanings
comparative more clangerous · superlative most clangerous
- rareRare spelling of clangorous.
...all the church bells rang out in clangerous sympathy.
1905, James Jesse Burns, Educational History of Ohio: A History of Its Progress Since the Formation of the State, page 4112 more examples
The streets were muddy and wet; and in obedience to the summons of a clangerous bell announcing the hour...
1873, Paul Gower, “A Rationalistic Story of English and American Life”, in The Index, volume 4, Free Religious Association, page 247Anything that sounds clangerous usually evokes more than one pitch.
2016 September 2, David Huron, chapter 4, in Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art, MIT Press, pages 33–34
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