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clamant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective clamant has 2 senses
- clamant(s = adj.all) blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous - conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
- clamant(s = adj.all) crying, exigent, insistent, instant - demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
CIDE DICTIONARY
clamant, a. [L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant.].
Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. Thomson. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clamant, adj. literary noisy; insistent, urgent.
Derivative
clamantly adv.
Etymology
L clamare clamant- cry out
ROGET THESAURUS
clamant
Cry
N cry, voice, hubbub, bark, vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint, lungs, stentor, crying, clamant, clamorous, vociferous, stentorian, open-mouthed.
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