ululant
adjEtymology Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“to howl”).
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Howling; wailing.
- A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.1924, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs”, in Weird Tales, volume 4, number 2:
- At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating.1927, Joseph Mailliard, “Additional Breeding Records of the Spotted and Saw-whet Owls in California”, in The Condor, volume 29, page 160:
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- With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead.2007, Rick Atkinson, The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy, page 181: