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/klˈæmərɪŋ/ Listen

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 'Clamoring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clamoring" Quotes from Famous Books

... of domestic peace and prosperity, and Englishmen were eager to enter the lists for a share in the advantages which the New World offered to those who would venture therein. Both landowning and landholding classes, gentry and tenant farmers alike, were clamoring, the one for an increase of their landed estates, the other for freedom from the feudal restraints which still legally bound them. The land-hunger of neither class could be satisfied in a narrow island where the law and the lawgivers were in favor ...

— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews

... on a sheer granite cliff where the sea-birds were whirling and clamoring, and the great breakers dashed, rolling in double-thundered reverberations on the sun-dyed, crimson ...

— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... of the English Press is clamoring for his return to power! There will be no need for his pen—he will take ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... in itself a strange and fearful sight, like what we read of in beleaguered cities; its streets crowded with gaunt wanderers, sauntering to and fro with hopeless air and hunger-stricken look; a mob of starved, almost naked women around the poorhouse clamoring for soup tickets; our inn, the headquarters of the road-engineer and pay-clerks, beset by ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... were a child clamoring for "a story" you did not care a snap of your fingers about anything except "Once upon a time there was a little boy—or a giant—or a dragon," who did something. You didn't care what the character was, but whatever it was, it had to do something, to be doing something all of the time. Even ...

— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

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