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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

... the ring is imploring the ladies and gentlemen to keep their seats, and to buy tickets for the negro-minstrel entertainment which is to follow, but which is not included in the price of admission. The boys would like to stay, but they have not the money, and they go out clamoring over the performance, and trying to decide which was the best feat. As to which was the best actor, there is never any question; it is the clown, who showed by the way he turned a double somersault that he can do anything, and who chooses to be clown simply because he is ...

— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells

... Patrols were clamoring around their patrol leaders. How much wire would be needed? Tim went back to where he had left his hat. And there, on his way out, ...

— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger

... that her disorders and dissipations have occasioned? No, far from it. These persons so touched and converted by God ordinarily content themselves with praying, fasting, religious offerings, frequenting churches, clamoring in favor of their priests, intriguing to sustain a sect, decrying all who disagree with their particular spiritual director, and exhibiting an ardent and ridiculous zeal for questions that they do not understand. In this manner ...

— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

... is at last: love me for it, I have worked so hard to get it done! And you do not know why and what for? Beloved, it—this—is the anniversary of the day we first met; and you have forgotten it already or never remembered it:—and yet have been clamoring for ...

— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous

... great uproar; the curious Wagogo monopolized almost every foot of ground; there was no room to turn anywhere. The Wanyamwezi were quarreling with the Wagogo, the Wasawahili servants were clamoring loud that the Wagogo pressed down their tents, and that the property of the masters was in danger; while I, busy on my diary within my tent, cared not how great was the noise and confusion outside as long as it confined itself to the Wagogo, ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

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