Exclaim vs Clamour - What's the difference?
exclaim | clamour |
(lb) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
(obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
* 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.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between exclaim and clamour
is that exclaim is (obsolete) exclamation; outcry, clamor while clamour is (obsolete) to repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.As verbs the difference between exclaim and clamour
is that exclaim is (lb) to cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion while clamour is .As nouns the difference between exclaim and clamour
is that exclaim is (obsolete) exclamation; outcry, clamor while clamour is .exclaim
English
Alternative forms
* exclameVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Oh fortune, thou'rt not worth my least exclame [...].
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)