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▪ I. echoing, vbl. n.|ˈɛkəʊɪŋ|
[f. echo v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. echo, lit. and fig. Poet. occas. in pl.
1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 164 The alarms of trumpets and drums are not heard..save by the ecchoing of the perplexed continent. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. Introd., Some feeble echoing of thine earlier lay. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 263 All echoings from out the hills.
▪ II. echoing, ppl. a.|ˈɛkəʊɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Of places or material objects: That reverberates sounds; characterized by or resounding with echoes.
1667Milton P.L. ix. 1107 A Pillard shade High over⁓arch'd and echoing walks between. 1683Boyle Effects of Mot. v. 65 The better sort of our Echoing places. 1829Southey All for Love vii. xxxiii, The echoing ground repeated the sound. 1842Longfellow Slave in Dism. Swamp v, Wild birds filled the echoing air with songs.
2. Of sounds or sound-producing agencies: That causes echoes. lit. and fig.
1702Rowe Ambit. Step-Moth. iv. iii. 1958 This way the Ecchoing Accents seem to come. 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 603 My echoing griefs the starry vault invade. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. 111 The echoing Bugle sounded through the streets of Brussels. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. Wks. (Bohn) II. 108 His countrymen forsook..Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps.
3. That gives or constitutes an expected response.
a1764Lloyd Actor Wks. 1774 I. 13 Equipoised he stands Till praise dismiss him with her echoing hands. 1862‘Cavendish’ Whist (1879) 268 Here your partner cannot tell whether your card is an original or an echoing one.
Hence ˈechoingly adv.
1854Chamb. Jrnl. I. 395 The first chords..wandered echoingly round the church. |