All 3 Uses of
knell
in
Macbeth
- Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Scene 2.1 *knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly (especially to announce death or a funeral)
- It cannot Be call'd our mother, but our grave: where nothing, But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile; Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air, Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying or ere they sicken.†
Scene 4.3
- Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death: And, so his knell is knoll'd.†
Scene 5.8
Definition:
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(knell) the sound of a bell rung slowly -- especially to announce death or a funeral
or:
announcing the demise or end of something