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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

... before them, so that only the first-comers under Klearchus could obtain accommodation, while the succeeding troops, coming up in the dark, pitched as they could without any order. The whole camp was a scene of clamor, dispute, and even alarm, throughout the night. No provisions could be obtained. Early the next morning Klearchus ordered them under arms; and desiring to expose the groundless nature of the alarm, caused the herald[7] to proclaim, that whoever would denounce ...

— The Two Great Retreats of History • George Grote

... Spanish chaplain of the owner of the Park in the early days of the Reformation. Owing to some little misunderstanding with His Majesty's commissioners, this unfortunate churchman met with an untimely death, and his shade is said to haunt the secret room—the site of which is unknown—and to clamor upon the door, and upon the walls ...

— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer

... the plaints that each moment arise? Is it thus ye forget the mild precepts of Penn,— Unheeding the clamor that "maddens the skies," As ye trample the rights of ...

— The Anti-Slavery Harp • Various

... of the Carpathia's engines, the piercing cold, the clamor of many voices in the companionways, caused me to dress hurriedly and awaken my wife, at 5.40 A. M. Monday. Our stewardess, meeting me outside, pointed to a wailing host in the rear dining room and said. 'From the Titanic. She's at the ...

— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various

... in the millpond had had a great battle, or some terrible catastrophe had overtaken them. Dead and dying frogs lay on the ground all about the pond, and their gurgles and croaks and clamor had made all the trouble and excitement. The story was soon told all over Connecticut, and everybody laughed, and ballads and songs were written about it, to the great mortification of the people of Windham. Yet the danger that explained the terror of that night was a real one in the history of ...

— Once Upon A Time In Connecticut • Caroline Clifford Newton

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