sepulchral

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Their voices were hollow and sepulchral, and the ministering angel who had visited them witnessed this moving spectacle not without tears.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a burial vault or a receptacle for sacred relics.
  2. adjective Suggestive of the grave; funereal.

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  • When Michelangelo, in 1524, supplied the Duke of Sessa with a sketch for the sepulchral monument to be erected for himself and his wife, he suggested that Sansovino should execute the work, proving thus by acts how undeserved the latter's hasty words had been. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
  • In Lady Anne's Causeway there's a ghost, and it speaks in sepulchral tones and says: 'Come hither, come hither to my home; thy time is come The little girl's eyes were shining; the very thought of that other ghost's "sepulchral" tones gave her a thrill down her back and lifted her out of herself. —  An Australian Lassie
  • I again nodded yes Well, ma'am, that box was a heavy load to lift into the wagon, but, ma'am"--here his voice became quite sepulchral--"it wasn't as heavy as it was when we lifted it out, and it hadn't the same feel either. —  The Forsaken Inn A Novel
  • They were proud of the old family--proud of the hereditary lords of the soil--proud of a name connecting itself with the glories of the reign of Elizabeth, and the loyalty shining, like a sepulchral lamp, through the gloomy records of the House of Stuart. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
  • You must say"--she made her voice sepulchral--"'I solemnly do She gave him her eyes again, held him with them He was rigid for a minute, gazing fixedly at her I solemnly do," he said at last, relaxing. —  The Lady Paramount
 

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  1. from Old French sepulchral, French sépulcral = Spanish Portuguese sepulcral = Italian sepolcrale, sepulcrale, from Latin sepulcralis, of or belonging to a sepulcher, from sepulcrum, sepulcher: see sepulcher.
 

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/səˈpəlkrəl/
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