a. Forms: 5 clamourus, 7 -arous, -orouse, 8–9 -ourous, 6– clamorous. [Corresponds to med.L. clāmōrōs-us, and obs. F. clamoreux, f. L. clāmōrem CLAMOUR: see -OUS.] Characterized by clamor.

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  1.  Of the nature of clamor; uttered with, or accompanied by, clamor or shouting; noisy.

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1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 92 b. Defendeth with hygh and clamorous wordes or speche his opinyon.

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. ii. 180. Hee … kist her lips with such a clamorous smacke, that at the parting all the Church did eccho.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., X. 479. Chaos wilde … fiercely oppos’d My journey strange, with clamorous uproare.

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1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 440, ¶ 6. He still reasoned in a more clamorous and confused manner.

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1828.  D’Israeli, Chas. I., II. i. 23. Loud and clamorous was the babble against the new soap.

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1842.  Emerson, Transcendentalist, Wks. (Bohn), II. 291. They … reject the clamorous nonsense of the hour.

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  2.  Uttering loud and persistent cries or shouts; noisy, vociferous; loudly urgent. Said of persons and other agents, or instruments; and transf. of places where these are.

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1540–54.  Croke, Ps. (1844), 19. Mercifull Lorde … let ascende vp to thyne eare My wofull voyce, and clamorous.

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1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 152. I will bee … more clamorous then a Parrat against raine.

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1728.  Pope, Dunc., II. 353. The clam’rous crowd is hush’d with mugs of Mum.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of L., III. i. Clamorous War-pipes yelled the gathering sound.

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1858.  W. Johnson, Ionica, 27. The zeal of those that miss the prize On clamorous river-banks.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. II. 45. Thersites only, clamorous of tongue, Kept brawling.

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  3.  fig. That urgently claims attention, ‘crying’; importunate. (Often including actual noise.)

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1621–31.  Laud, Sev. Serm. (1847), 98. I doubt our sins have been as clamorous upon God to heat His fire.

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1691.  T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 44. Put an end to this clamorous Evil.

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1712.  Arbuthnot, John Bull (1755), 13. She … applied her fortune to pay John’s clamorous debts.

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1836.  J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., i. (1852), 5. The age … we may almost say, is clamorous for new works.

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