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noun

Fulmination n.

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.

That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. "The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule."

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Etymology of 'Fulmination'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fulmination" Quotes from Famous Books

... obvious display of the forces that propel the effect—a lesser phase of the weariness which ensues upon much reading of the mere "human documents" of the Goncourt school of novelists. In the same way, we too often see Browning working up the electrical qualities, so that, when the fulmination comes, we understand "just how it was produced," and, as illogically as children before a too elaborate conjurer, conclude that there is not so much in this particular poetic feat as in others which, like ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

... too combustible, where continual sparks are flying! Their History is a series of sputters and quarrels; true desire to do their function, fatal impossibility to do it. Denunciations, reprimandings of King's Ministers, of traitors supposed and real; hot rage and fulmination against fulminating Emigrants; terror of Austrian Kaiser, of 'Austrian Committee' in the Tuileries itself: rage and haunting terror, haste and dim desperate bewilderment!—Haste, we say; and yet the Constitution had provided ...

— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

Words linked to "Fulmination" : diatribe, burst, denunciation, explosion, fulminate