OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20531

knell

/nɛl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
clamorear • doblar • encordar
To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]
“[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!”
Phrases