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Definition of Fulmination
1. Noun. Thunderous verbal attack.
2. Noun. The act of exploding with noise and violence. "His fulminations frightened the horses"
Definition of Fulmination
1. n. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
Definition of Fulmination
1. Noun. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation. ¹
2. Noun. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority. ¹
3. Noun. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulmination
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulmination
Literary usage of Fulmination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"And in all literature there is no more scathing fulmination than his " Ichabod,"
when Daniel Webster turned his back upon his patriotic past and strove to ..."
2. Notes on Military Explosives by Erasmus Morgan Weaver (1917)
"fulmination. This class of explosion is still more brusque than the last. It is
like the last in that the initial molecule is broken up by the crushing ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1799)
"The oxygenated muriate of mercury, treated in the fame manner, afforded a very-
weak detonation. Experiments 9 and io. I endeavoured to produce fulmination ..."
4. A Visit of One Thousand Sabbath School Teachers of Massachusetts in New York by Massachusetts Sabbath School Teachers, Sabbath School Teachers, Massachusetts (1855)
"... the fulmination of a Bull against the noble efforts of Sardinia, as she grasps
civil and religions liberty ! But this sally of decrepitude falls ..."
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