Vociferation vs Bluster - What's the difference?
vociferation | bluster | Related terms |
The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
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Pompous, officious talk.
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Fitful noise and violence.
To speak or protest loudly.
To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
* Burke
* Sir T. More
* Fuller
To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
* Milton
Vociferation is a related term of bluster.
As nouns the difference between vociferation and bluster
is that vociferation is vociferation while bluster is pompous, officious talk.As a verb bluster is
to speak or protest loudly.vociferation
English
Noun
(en noun)- And as she apprehended the boy's life was in danger, she screamed ten times louder than before; and indeed Master Blifil himself now seconded her with all the vociferation in his power.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "vociferation")bluster
English
Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}
Synonyms
* (pompous talk) bombastVerb
- When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.
- Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
- He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.
- As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
- And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.