"soul knell" meaning in English

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      "form": "soule knell",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1614, Thomas Adams, The Gallants Burden, London: […] T. S. for Clement Knight, page 40:",
          "text": "The rich Churle enlarging his Barnes proportionably to his deſires, had his Night ; hee heard that ſoule-knell , Thou foole, this Night ſhall they fetch away thy ſoule.",
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          "ref": "1678, An Alarm to Judgement, or An aſſay to rouſe up all, of all ſorts, (before it be too late) to prepare to meet the Bridegroom, page 216:",
          "text": "The firſt dead 19. hours, or there about\nThe ſoul knell-towld, then paſſing-peal rang out,\nAll things appointed to convey him thence,\nHis ſoul return's and gives his body ſence;",
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          "ref": "1912, W. P. Ker, “Comic Poetry” (chapter VI), in English Literature; Medieval, London: Williams and Norgate, page 170:",
          "text": "And the Wolf going down met the Fox half way; Reynard, \" glad and blithe \" that the Wolf was a true penitent and in clean living, promised to have his soul-knell rung and masses said for him.",
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        "Synonym of passing bell."
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        "(obsolete) Synonym of passing bell."
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  "word": "soul knell"
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          "ref": "1614, Thomas Adams, The Gallants Burden, London: […] T. S. for Clement Knight, page 40:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1678, An Alarm to Judgement, or An aſſay to rouſe up all, of all ſorts, (before it be too late) to prepare to meet the Bridegroom, page 216:",
          "text": "The firſt dead 19. hours, or there about\nThe ſoul knell-towld, then paſſing-peal rang out,\nAll things appointed to convey him thence,\nHis ſoul return's and gives his body ſence;",
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          "ref": "1912, W. P. Ker, “Comic Poetry” (chapter VI), in English Literature; Medieval, London: Williams and Norgate, page 170:",
          "text": "And the Wolf going down met the Fox half way; Reynard, \" glad and blithe \" that the Wolf was a true penitent and in clean living, promised to have his soul-knell rung and masses said for him.",
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        "(obsolete) Synonym of passing bell."
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  "word": "soul knell"
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