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clamour

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1. clamour - Noun

2. clamour - Verb

Meaning

loud and persistent outcry from many people

make loud demands

utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. Rabindranath Tagore

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. Thomas Carlyle

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. Piers Anthony

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. J. M. Coetzee

Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence? Alfred de Vigny

Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour. Taliesin

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