Outcry vs Clamour - What's the difference?
outcry | clamour | Related terms |
a loud cry or uproar
a strong protest
To cry out.
* 1919 , Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1
To cry louder than.
* 2003 , Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)
* 2007 , Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)
* 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.
Outcry is a related term of clamour.
As nouns the difference between outcry and clamour
is that outcry is a loud cry or uproar while clamour is .As verbs the difference between outcry and clamour
is that outcry is to cry out while clamour is .outcry
English
Noun
(outcries)- His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
- The proposal was met with a public outcry .
Verb
- I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
- ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...
- The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.
Anagrams
* English heteronymsclamour
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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)