Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outcry or shout of many together; a clamorous outcry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An outcry or shout of many together.
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- noun rare An outcry or shout of many together
Etymologies
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Examples
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But whether that mournful burthen, and treble calling out after Absalom, had any reference unto the last conclamation, and triple valediction, used by other nations, we hold but a wavering conjecture.
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First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
Ulysses 2003
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First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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See (Jeremiah 22: 18) The females of the neighborhood come to join with them in this conclamation: generally, also, the family send for two or more neddabehs or public wailing-women.
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If there ever was a man after death fit to lie on Abraham Lincoln's catafalque, and near the marble representation of Alexander Hamilton, and under Crawford's splendid statue of Freedom, with a sheathed sword in her hand and a wreath of stars on her brow, and to be carried out amid the acclamation and conclamation of a grateful people, that man was Henry Wilson.
Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884
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This ceremony of calling the deceased by name was known as the _conclamation, _ and was a custom anterior even to the foundation of Rome.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884
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This ceremony of calling the deceased by name was known as the _conclamation_, and was a custom anterior even to the foundation of Rome.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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Hamilton, and under Crawford's splendid statue of Freedom, with a sheathed sword in her hand and a wreath of stars on her brow, and to be carried out amid the acclamation and conclamation of a grateful people, that man was Henry Wilson.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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But whether that mournful burthen, and treble calling out after Absalom, had any reference unto the last conclamation, and triple valediction, used by other nations, we hold but a wavering conjecture.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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But a deep solemn murmur rose on all sides, deepening, swelling into a vast overwhelming conclamation — "Down with the Traitor — away with the
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
brtom commented on the word conclamation
"... at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 20, 2007
whichbe commented on the word conclamation
Shouting together.
May 16, 2008