Clamour vs Complain - What's the difference?
clamour | complain |
* Chaucer (Wife of Bath's Tale)
*:Ffor which oppression was swich clamour
* Shakespeare (Love's Labours Lost)
*:Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
* Addison
*:Here the loud Arno's boist'rous clamours cease.
(obsolete) To salute loudly.
* Milton
(obsolete) To stun with noise.
* Bacon
(obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
* Milton
To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
* Shakespeare
To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
As verbs the difference between clamour and complain
is that clamour is while complain is to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.As a noun clamour
is .clamour
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (US spelling)Noun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
Verb
(en verb)- The people with a shout / Rifted the air, clamouring their god with praise.
- Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
- (Bishop Warburton)
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) ----complain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain !
- They've complained about me to the police again.
- Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
- the complaining bed-springs