[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Of places or material objects: That reverberates sounds; characterized by or resounding with echoes.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 1107. A Pillard shade High overarch’d and echoing walks between.
1683. Boyle, Effects of Mot., v. 65. The better sort of our Echoing places.
1829. Southey, All for Love, VII. xxxiii. The echoing ground repeated the sound.
1842. Longf., Slave in Dismal Swamp, v. Wild birds filled the echoing air with songs.
2. Of sounds or sound-producing agencies: That causes echoes. lit. and fig.
1702. Rowe, Ambit. Step-Moth., IV. iii. 1958. This way the Ecchoing Accents seem to come.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 603. My echoing griefs the starry vault invade.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit., 111. The echoing Bugle sounded through the streets of Brussels.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, xiv. Wks. (Bohn), II. 108. His countrymen forsook … Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps.
3. That gives or constitutes an expected response.
a. 1764. Lloyd, Actor, Wks. 1774. I. 13. Equipoised he stands Till praise dismiss him with her echoing hands.
1862. ‘Cavendish,’ Whist (1879), 268. Here your partner cannot tell whether your card is an original or an echoing one.
Hence Echoingly adv.
1854. Chamb. Jrnl., I. 395. The first chords … wandered echoingly round the church.
