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Fulmination

Fulmination \Ful"mi*na`tion\, n. [L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf. F. fulmination.]

  1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

  2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.

  3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.

    The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
    --Ayliffe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fulmination

c.1500, "act of thundering forth denunciations," from Middle French fulmination, from Latin fulminationem (nominative fulminatio) "a discharge of lightning," noun of action from past participle stem of fulminare "to hurl lightning" (see fulminate). Literal sense "act of exploding or detonating" (1620s) is rare in English.

Wiktionary
fulmination

n. 1 The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation. 2 The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority. 3 That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.

WordNet
fulmination

  1. n. thunderous verbal attack [syn: diatribe]

  2. the act of exploding with noise and violence; "his fulminations frightened the horses"

Wikipedia
Fulmination
  • Fulmination or fulminates are chemical compounds which include the fulminate ion.
  • A fulmination is a solemn political pronouncement, especially a papal bull.

Usage examples of "fulmination".

Another night-shattering fulmination sent a tongue of fire from sky to earth, and this one did, at last, lick the Ferris wheel, which lit up along every spoke and crossbeam, each cable a blazing filament, and for an instant it seemed that the huge machine was encrusted with jewels through which raced lambent reflections of flames.

Inside the plastic container was precisely thirty gallons of Lake Jesup's purest, and in that agitated but freshly oxygenated water was the fish called Queenie, flaring her fins, jawing silent fulminations.

Idea pieces can be fascinating and important and moving and provocative, but they can also be (and often are) tracts, fulminations, pedantries and muddy blaster pieces.