Crossword clues for clamant
clamant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clamant \Cla"mant\, a. [L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call.
Cf. Claimant.]
Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. ``Clamant
children.''
--Thomson.
Wiktionary
a. 1 urgent 2 Crying earnestly; beseeching clamorously.
WordNet
adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]
demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: crying, exigent, insistent, instant]
Usage examples of "clamant".
I even begged him to permit me to retire from my Ministerial office, that thus the clamant envy that inspired my persecution might be deprived of its incentive.
Hanging out of the other window he beheld the clamant Baron urging the guard with frenzied entreaty.
To banish it, to vindicate in himself the generous inches that all the world had conspired to deny: this was the clamant need of his whole being.
This last glimpse presented so clamant a call for aid that Mr Thewless began to scramble over the seats, the lessons of long-past first-aid classes reassembling themselves surprisingly in his mind.
For a little time she clung desperately to her purpose, hardening her heart and shutting her ears to the clamant appeal of the reawakened sentiment of commiseration.