"ring the welkins" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "rings the welkins",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ringing the welkins",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "rang the welkins",
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      "form": "rung the welkins",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "word": "make the welkin ring"
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          "ref": "1953, T.V. Smith, “Democratic Apologetics”, in Ethics, LXIII, № 2 (January 1953), pages 103-4:",
          "text": "Now it ill becomes those who sneer at the stridency of our partisanship to change “the party line” on one another without warning — as in poor Browder’s case — and then ring the welkins, on one side, with the most intemperate denunciations and, on the other side — especially in Russia — with the most abject breast-beatings of confessed guilt.",
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        "Alternative form of make the welkin ring"
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  "word": "ring the welkins"
}

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    {
      "form": "rings the welkins",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ringing the welkins",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rang the welkins",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rung the welkins",
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        "participle",
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          "text": "Now it ill becomes those who sneer at the stridency of our partisanship to change “the party line” on one another without warning — as in poor Browder’s case — and then ring the welkins, on one side, with the most intemperate denunciations and, on the other side — especially in Russia — with the most abject breast-beatings of confessed guilt.",
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