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CLAMOUR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and persistent outcry from many people

Example:

he ignored the clamor of the crowd

Synonyms:

clamor; clamoring; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clamour" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

Derivation:

clamour (make loud demands)

clamour (utter or proclaim insistently and noisily)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make loud demands

Example:

he clamored for justice and tolerance

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "clamour" is one way to...):

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

clamour (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

Example:

The delegates clamored their disappointment

Synonyms:

clamor; clamour

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "clamour" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

clamour (loud and persistent outcry from many people)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He left here, said Traddles, with his mother, who had been clamouring, and beseeching, and disclosing, the whole time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wolf Larsen sprang on deck, and so swiftly that by the time we followed him he had pulled the steerage-slide over the drunken clamour and was on his way forward to close the forecastle-scuttle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the clamour of approval did not distract him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most keenly have regretted the separation; that wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace! as it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

During the last few minutes, Mrs. Heep had been clamouring to her son to be “umble”; and had been going down on her knees to all of us in succession, and making the wildest promises.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For a time I listened to the clamour in the steerage and marvelled upon the love which had come to me; but my sleep on the Ghost had become most healthful and natural, and soon the songs and cries died away, my eyes closed, and my consciousness sank down into the half-death of slumber.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But he resolutely held the door of his tepee, inside which he had placed the culprit, and refused to permit the vengeance for which his tribespeople clamoured.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Perhaps it was to this that the golden colour was due; but golden his eyes were, enticing and masterful, at the same time luring and compelling, and speaking a demand and clamour of the blood which no woman, much less Maud Brewster, could misunderstand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His fevered membranes and burnt stomach began to clamour for more and more of the scorching fluid; while his brain, thrust all awry by the unwonted stimulant, permitted him to go any length to obtain it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)