2. Verb. (third-person singular of clamour) ¹
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Definition of Clamours
1. clamour [v] - See also: clamour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clamours
Literary usage of Clamours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... the blood of wild beasts and gladiators, that the voice of compassion could
be heard. The impatient clamours of the multitude denounced the Christians ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1823)
"THE beginning of the present occur to them, that there would the clamours of the
farmers and medy; each orator had .a variety ..."
3. The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War by Charles Stedman (1794)
"... and clamours in the American States—Riots between the American and French
Seamen at Bo/Ion—and at ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"T HE beginning of the present year was marked chiefly by the clamours of the
farmers and land-owners. Numerous meetings were held in the agricultural ..."
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