conclamation
conclamation noun: an outcry or shout of many together.
Noun
conclamation (plural conclamations)
- An outcry or shout of many together.
- Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe
A dying man's amazed houshold show,
Before his funerall conclamation […].1631, Thomas May, Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar, The Second Book - [T]he Romans let their body lie seven days; mean while using their Ablution in warm Water, and their several Conclamations, as they called them, to try if there was any spirit left in them, which might be awaked and recovered to life again. If after the last Conclamation no sign of life appeared...1722, Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume X, Book XXXXIII, Chapter iii
- Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe
Examples of conclamation in a sentence
- If after the last Conclamation no sign of life appeared, then Conclamatum est, there was no Remedy, after this Cry they carried them forth to their Funeral-Pile.1722, Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume X, Book XXXXIII, Chapter iii:
- 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Forms of conclamation
| plural | conclamations |
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Origin of conclamation
From Latin conclamatio.
Questions about conclamation
- What does conclamation mean?
- Conclamation means an outcry or shout of many together.
- How do you use conclamation in a sentence?
- If after the last Conclamation no sign of life appeared, then Conclamatum est, there was no Remedy, after this Cry they carried them forth to their Funeral-Pile.
- What part of speech is conclamation?
- Conclamation is a noun.
- What is the plural of conclamation?
- The plural of conclamation is conclamations.
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