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Definition of Murmurous
1. Adjective. Characterized by soft sounds. "A slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"
Definition of Murmurous
1. a. Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring.
Definition of Murmurous
1. Adjective. Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur. ¹
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Definition of Murmurous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murmurous
Literary usage of Murmurous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"May's eldest child, The coming musk.rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt
of flies on summer eves. KEATS : Ode to a Nightingale. Flowers of all bue, ..."
2. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest HENLEY (1901)
"HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER XXIX A world of leafage murmurous and a-twinkle; The green,
delicious plenitude of June; Love and laughter and song The blue day long ..."
3. The Royal Gallery of Poetry and Art: An Illustrated Book of the Favorite by Nathan David Thompson (1886)
"That brood'st serenely o'er the purpling hills; О blissful valley! nestling, cool
and fair, In the fond arms of yonder murmurous rills. ..."
4. The Brandywine by John Russell Hayes (1898)
"For whether hastening with murmurous song Down pebble-fretted slopes, or lingering
In tranquil majesty along thy deeps, ..."
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