Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. --C.
Bront['e].
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2. To soothe by singing softly.
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The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
crooned — kruËn v. sing softly, hum softly … English contemporary dictionary
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