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Definition of Dissonantly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissonantly
Literary usage of Dissonantly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"... Cadences which are complete — With your rapture swells and thrills, And your
adoration trills— Sing! О Infinite Choir! that I May not dissonantly die. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"blended with groans, and yells, and curses, and the clash of blades, and the wild
blast of trumpets, pealed dissonantly to the sky. ..."
3. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1890)
"... We fain would cheer thee with such words as spring To verbal life and dissonantly
throng On our rude lips ; so, as we halt along, An antique story we to ..."
4. The Autobiography of John Galt by John Galt (1833)
"He was a delightful and sublime instrument, wherefrom the instinctive note
converses musically or dissonantly, according as it is struck. ..."
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