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noun

Clamor n.

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation from many people. (Also spelled clamour)

Synonyms: clamor, hue and cry.

Any loud and continued noise.

A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

Synonyms: Outcry; exclamation; noise; uproar.

verb

Clamor v. t. (past & past part. clamored; pres. part. clamoring)

To salute loudly. (R.) "The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise.".

To stun with noise. (R.)

To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. "Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly." "To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang."

Clamor v. i.

To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to talk in a loud voice; to complain; to make importunate demands.

Synonyms: clamor, roar, vociferate, holler, hollo. "The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night."

To dispute in a loud voice.

Synonyms: brawl, wrangle, clamor.

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Etymology of 'Clamor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clamor" Quotes from Famous Books

... arbitrary measures: the household itself could not be supported without stretching to the utmost the right of purveyance, and rendering it a kind of universal robbery upon the people: the public clamor rose high upon this occasion, and no one had the equity to make allowance for the necessity of the king's situation. Suffolk, once become odious, bore the blame of the whole; and every grievance, in every part of the administration, was universally ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume

... Dark bodies of Mexican troops moved heavily to and fro, and cannon bristled from the embrasures. The usually quiet town was metamorphosed into a scene of riot and clamor, and fandangos, at which Bacchus rather than Terpsichore presided, often welcomed the new-born day. The few Americans[A] in San Antonio viewed with darkened brows the insolent cavaliers. The gauntlet was flung down—there was no retraction, no retreat. They knew that it was so, and girded themselves ...

— Inez - A Tale of the Alamo • Augusta J. Evans

... the ears of the besieged listeners like voices wild and unearthly. The banging of the big shutters of the pavilion was heard in echo as the furious gale bore the sounds back from the mountain and the familiar, homely noise was conjured into a kind of ghostly clamor. ...

— Tom Slade's Double Dare • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... development of the "marvellous deposit of coal and iron," which had been discovered upon the property by Mr. Lawson, one day while seated in his revolving chair in his State Street office, furnished the basis for the incorporation of the Furnaces Company. After $2,000,000 had been "expended," the clamor of the stockholders caused the company actually to build several furnaces. They were erected and stood idle, with nothing to feed them. The whole scheme collapsed in 1892. The stockholders lost every dollar ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... might be with the utterance of a word; no soft uncertainty to give a charm to every hour that passed. Nothing but daily duties, a little leisure that hung heavy on her hands with no hope to stimulate, no lover to lighten it, and a sore, sad heart that would clamor for its right; and even when pride silenced it ached on with the dull pain which only time and patience have the ...

— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

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