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Knell   /nɛl/   Listen
noun
Knell  n.  The stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, (figuratively), A warning or harbinger of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything; also called death knell. "The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who." "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."


verb
Knell  v. t.  To summon, as by a knell. "Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death."


Knell  v. i.  (past & past part. knelled; pres. part. knelling)  To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. "Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee." "Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone"."





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"Knell" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sacred ensign was welcomed by the Christians with a shout of "Victory!" which rose high above the din of battle. The tidings of the death of Ali soon passed from mouth to mouth, giving fresh heart to the confederates, but falling like a knell on the ears of the Moslems. Their confidence was gone. Their fire slackened. Their efforts grew weaker and weaker. They were too far from shore to seek an asylum there, like their comrades on the right. They had no resource but to prolong the combat or to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various
... newly-born Has mingled with the funeral knell; And o'er the dying's ear has gone The ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... cold tranquillity presided over the place. The screech-owl gave one gloomy shrill and prolonged note, and all was still again. But that sound went thrilling to Theodora's heart, like the death-knell on the mountain blast; while the night wind blew fearfully, and the dismal howling was rehearsed by the echoes ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... was assailed with innumerable annoyances. Her body was racked with the gout, and her feeble mind was distracted by the contradictory counsels of her advisers. Any allusion to her successor was a knell of agony to her disturbed soul. She became suspicious, and was even alienated from Harley, whom she dismissed from office only a few days before her death, which took place Aug. 1, 1714. She died without ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII • John Lord
... warmth: "I refuse to recognise the divinity of noise; I utterly deny the majesty of monster choruses; clamour and clangour are the death-knell of music as drapery and so-called realism (which means, if it mean aught, that the dress is more real than the form underneath it!) are the destruction of sculpture. It is very strange. Every day art in every other way becomes more natural and music ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida


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