clangerous

English

Adjective

clangerous (comparative more clangerous, superlative most clangerous)

1. Rare spelling of clangorous.
   • 1873, Paul Gower, “A Rationalistic Story of English and American Life”, in The Index, volume 4, Free Religious Association, page 247:

     The streets were muddy and wet; and in obedience to the summons of a clangerous bell announcing the hour...

   • 1905, James Jesse Burns, Educational History of Ohio: A History of Its Progress Since the Formation of the State, page 411:

     ...all the church bells rang out in clangerous sympathy.

   • 2016 September 2, David Huron, chapter 4, in Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art, MIT Press, pages 33–34:

     Anything that sounds clangerous usually evokes more than one pitch.