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clamour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈklæm.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈklæm.ɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) UK and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
    • For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […] 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 17:
    • Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clamor US, alternative lexicographic
clamours Number=Plur lexicographic

clamour en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈklæm.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈklæm.ɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

Meanings

  1. UK and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
    • The second argument , against the integrity of the Law from this Omission , has been clamoured by a large Body of Answerers 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To salute loudly.
    • At ſight of him the people with a ſhout / Rifted the Air clamouring thir god with praiſe, 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 94, lines 621–622:
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To stun with noise.
    • Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clamoured Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clamoured Tense=Past lexicographic
clamouring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clamor US, alternative lexicographic
clamours Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

outclamour · clamourer · clamoursome