Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ululating; howling; hooting or screeching, as an owl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Howling; wailing.
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- adjective
Howling ;wailing .
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Examples
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An interesting aside, to me: in the dictionary under "ululant" is an quoted use of the word: "dark wasteland...ululant with bitter wind."
Being Invisible in Death The Daily Growler 2006
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Though how many people look up the word "ululant" in their lives.
Being Invisible in Death The Daily Growler 2006
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Ann went off to photograph them doing it, and I pressed my ear to the ice and heard the adults underneath calling their ancient song, ululant and ineffably sad.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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I would give that odd ululant cry I had learned in a dream, and sometimes Kergma would join us, come skittering down the. folds of darkness, out some frayed area of twisted space.
Prince of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1991
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It was high-pitched, ululant-plainly the cry of a master to his minions, his hounds ... or his snow leopards.
Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986
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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.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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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.
Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878
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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.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Femineis ululant; ferit aurea sidera clamor "-- from his favourite poet.
The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891
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