Lexicographical Neighbors of Clamancy
Literary usage of Clamancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"... and the desire for holiness assumes the clamancy of passion ; but when some
habitual weakness or unexpected failure reminds us how far we are from ..."
2. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"... nature should not see that, while man's impulses and instincts are indeed
ineradicable and often imperious in their clamancy, they are the impulses, ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"clamancy, t. The urgency of apy necessity, 8. CLAMANT, a-lj. Having a powerful
plea of as, "This is a very clamant case, S. aggravated, so as to cal 1 aloud ..."
4. History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince by James Robertson (1847)
"... to the presbytery last year, of the same import with the above, but that it
had miscarried, which considerably increased the clamancy of their case. ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1882)
"... but which have continued year by year to wax in gravity and clamancy, until
they have now reached an excess so intolerable that unless a remedy be ..."
6. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"No doubt the operation of blind physical forces and the clamancy of fleshly
impulse are the immediate conditions of much natural and moral evil. ..."
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