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clamant, a.|ˈkleɪmənt, ˈklæm-|
[ad. L. clāmānt-em, pr. pple. of clāmāre to cry out.]
1. lit.
a. Crying out, clamorous, noisy.
1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvi. 95 A Clamant Woeman, or of many words. 1730Thomson Autumn 350 Winter..and a train Of clamant children dear. 1806J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 43 Clamant for food. 1963Times 11 Mar. 3/5 A deliriously clamant crowd rightly thought a try inevitable.
b. Of sounds, etc. (with mixture of sense 2).
1818Keats Endymion ii, This clamant word Broke through the careful silence. 1888Mrs. Oliphant Joyce I. 196 The sound..became every moment more and more clamant.
2. fig. ‘Crying’, urgent. Chiefly in Sc. writers.
1723McWard Contend. Faith 2 (Jam.) A clear and continued testimony against the clamant wickedness. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1852) 460 In order to the rectification of a clamant evil. 1858Beveridge Hist. India III. viii. ix. 545 The abuses became every day more clamant. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 195 My appetite was a clamant, instant annoyance. |