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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

... all of a rush. "My master hath been gone near two weeks. He went alone from here. But tell me who you are, clamoring ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

... for her grief recalled to him the thought that his desire was to make all children happy, without regard to their condition in life. Yet, while so many poor children were clamoring for his toys he could not bear to give one to them to Bessie Blithesome, who had so much already to ...

— The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum

... came the cavalcade. The crowd fell in alongside and ran with it to the Barracks, clamoring for details, pouring questions upon the returning travelers. Joe McCaskey, of course, was speechless, this ordeal proving, as a matter of fact, scarcely less trying than that other one at Sheep Camp when he had run the gauntlet. ...

— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... were still clamoring for my head, but the Pombo made a firm stand this time, and declined to go on with the execution. They collected round him and seemed very angry. They shouted and yelled and gesticulated in the wildest fashion, and still the Pombo kept his eyes fixed upon me in a ...

— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor

... wanted Mr. Davis to escape, because he did not wish to deal with the matter of his punishment. He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. He thought blood enough had already been spilled to atone for our wickedness as a nation. At all events he did not wish to be the judge to decide whether more should be shed or not. But his own life was sacrificed ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

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