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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An outcry or shout of many together; a clamorous outcry.

Wiktionary

  1. n. rare An outcry or shout of many together

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare An outcry or shout of many together.

Etymologies

  1. Latin conclamatio (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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.”

    Smith's Bible Dictionary

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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)

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  • whichbe Shouting together. May 16, 2008

  • brtom "... at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 19, 2007

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