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clamor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clamor \Clam"or\, n. [OF. clamour, clamur, F. clameur, fr. L. clamor, fr. clamare to cry out. See Claim.]
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A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation from many people.
--Shak. [Also spelled clamour.]Syn: clamor, hue and cry.
Any loud and continued noise.
--Addison.-
A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
--Macaulay.Syn: Outcry; exclamation; noise; uproar.
Clamor \Clam"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clamored; p. pr. & vb. n. Clamoring.]
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To salute loudly. [R.]
The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise.
--Milton . To stun with noise. [R.]
--Bacon.-
To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly.
--Longfellow.To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang.
--Bp. Warbur?ion.
Clamor \Clam"or\, v. i. To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to talk in a loud voice; to complain; to make importunate demands.
Syn: clamor, roar, vociferate, holler, hollo.
The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night.
--Shak.
2. to dispute in a loud voice.
Syn: brawl, wrangle, clamor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French clamor "call, cry, appeal, outcry" (12c., Modern French clameur), from Latin clamor "a shout, a loud call" (either friendly or hostile), from clamare "to cry out" (see claim (v.)).
late 14c., from clamor (n.). Related: Clamored; clamoring.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. 2 Any loud and continued noise. 3 A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To cry out and/or demand. 2 (context transitive English) To demand by outcry. 3 (context intransitive English) To become noisy insistently. 4 (context transitive English) To influence by outcry. 5 (context obsolete transitive English) To silence.
WordNet
n. a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, din]
loud and persistent outcry from many people; "he ignored the clamor of the crowd" [syn: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry]
Wikipedia
Clamor may refer to:
- Clamor (magazine), a bi-monthly magazine published in Toledo, Ohio
- Clamor (ministry), a Christian youth outreach ministry in the U.S. and the Caribbean
Clamor was a bi-monthly magazine published in Toledo, Ohio. The focus of the magazine was alternative culture (covering art, commentary, cultural criticism, photography, interviews, politics, and music), often from a politically left-wing perspective.
It was reported in November 2006 that Clamor intended to go out of business. According to New York City Indymedia, Clamor published over 1000 writers and artists in its seven-year, 38-issue run.
Usage examples of "clamor".
Friends in Massachusetts reported to Adams that because of Common Sense the clamor for a declaration of independence was never greater.
As they approached the fair, Garion could hear a cacophonous tumult filling the aira sort of bawling clamor of thousands of voices shouting all at once.
By their clamor they at length forced the English governor of the colony to yield to their demands and sign the infamous bill.
The elders of the city, the uncles of the prophet, affected to despise the presumption of an orphan, the reformer of his country: the pious orations of Mahomet in the Caaba were answered by the clamors of Abu Taleb.
There would be the added clamor of the cavvy, and later, of tired riders galloping heavily into the coulee, and of many voices upraised in full-toned talk with now and then a burst of laughter.
The chimes grew faster, harsher, they clamored in a single note that throbbed, a heartbeat of brass.
Libelli famosi, cui titulus, Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus Parricidas Anglicanos, authorem recte dictum.
Even those who censured the propriety of his measures were compelled to acknowledge, that he possessed magnanimity to conceive, and patience to execute, the most arduous designs, without being checked either by the prejudices of education, or by the clamors of the multitude.
A single weird cry, a warbling epiglottal shrilling uncanny in the night, triggered a wild clamor, and the invaders spurred their mounts to a canter, charging downhill at the ylver.
Constantinople: they urged, with importunate clamors, the increase of tribute, or the restitution of captives and deserters: and the majesty of the empire was almost equally degraded by a base compliance, or by the false and fearful excuses with which they eluded such insolent demands.
After the clamor of the chase, with the fresh north wind blowing, the ropes and sheets singing in the yards, the canvas snapping constantly, this muffled fogbank was unnaturally silent.
Inside the shop, Girard heard nothing but the bell-like clamor of the tins striking each other as the German footmen hurled them carelessly into the wain.
He had so far left that particular holding alone, not even allowing the gobbes their clamored demand for a share of its flocks.
On the flat Island and along the shores of the Kashubian lakes, in the drainage ditches of the low-lying country and in the reeds along the shore, everywhere toads clamored, and Reschke identified them by their mating call, as red-bellied toads, the so-called fire toads.
First to Kwa, then up and around, clamoring that help was needed now if it ever was.