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Clamor

noun

A loud harsh or strident noise. Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din.

Loud and persistent outcry from many people. Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry.

verb

(past & past part. clamored; pres. part. clamoring)

Make loud demands. Synonym: clamour.

Utter or proclaim insistently and noisily. Synonym: clamour.

Compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring.

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"Clamor" Quotes from Famous Books

... half-undressed, which ever you please. They entered pell-mell, candlestick in hand, and there found Ganguernet stretched upon a sofa. To the reiterated questions that were put him as to the cause of the clamor, he answered not a word; but taking the pale-faced young man by the hand in a very solemn manner, and leading him up to the fine lady, gravely said to her: 'I have the honor, Madam, of presenting to you the most poetic ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... voices and incessant clatter were like the cries of woe of demented souls. Below, the occasional bellow of a crocodile hidden in the reedy bed of a marsh or the high-pitched wail of the great brown wolf added its note to the clamor of the multitude. ...

— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

... of protests came to Earl Grey. He wired the President, the President exchanged views with the governor-general, and the great international campaign to save Niagara Falls had begun. The American Civic Association and scores of other civic and patriotic bodies had joined in the clamor. ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

... best they could. Thus they rose in a confused brown mass, almost in the face of the young hunter, who advanced rapidly, whirling the weighted cords about his head. At precisely the right instant, and not upset by the sudden clamor of the rising fowl, the Aleut boy straightened his arm in front of him and launched his missile with precision into the very middle of the flapping mass of ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

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