Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An outcry or shout of many together; a clamorous outcry.
Wiktionary
- n. rare An outcry or shout of many together
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare An outcry or shout of many together.
Etymologies
- 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But a deep solemn murmur rose on all sides, deepening, swelling into a vast overwhelming conclamation — "Down with the Traitor — away with the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conclamation’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Awesome
Awesome words
mimsy, concupiscence, tumescent, ophidian, houri, vorpal, cyprian, Delphic, incipient, effete, existential, loam and 289 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
acculturation, isopraxism, girouettism, steinzor effect, crowdsourcing, ethnocentric, syntality, conclamation, esprit de corps, ethnomania, entryism, herd crime and 78 more...
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Pierre's Words
zygophyllaceous, sylvan, raiment, phantasmagoria, schadenfreude, antediluvian, sojourner, cerulean, dysphoria, orthogonal, frenetic, cerulean and 4 more...
Tweets
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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