Vociferation vs Shriek - What's the difference?
vociferation | shriek | Related terms |
The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
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A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
* Spenser
* Moore
Vociferation is a related term of shriek.
As nouns the difference between vociferation and shriek
is that vociferation is vociferation while shriek is a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.As a verb shriek is
to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.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")shriek
English
Noun
(en noun)- Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?
Verb
- It was the owl that shrieked .
- At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.