Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of fulminating, exploding, or detonating; the act of thundering forth denunciations, threats, censures, and the like, with authority and violence.
- n. That which is fulminated or thundered forth, as a menace or censure.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
- n. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
- n. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
- n. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
- n. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. thunderous verbal attack
- n. the act of exploding with noise and violence
Examples
“It is the perfect fodder for talk show host fulmination.”
“Reade's fulmination recounts the Tom Hicks‑George Gillett years, which ended in court in October, shortly after Liverpool lost to Blackpool and half the Kop stayed behind to demand the removal of the Tom and Jerry of Premier League ownership.”
The Guardian: Kenny Dalglish is showing at Liverpool he was never a busted flush | Paul Hayward
“Led by Michelle Malkin, the Orcosphere has made the leap into the hyperspace of right-wing fulmination.”
“By the time Obama acted, even the G.O.P. leader Mitch McConnell was ahead of him in full (if hypocritical) fulmination.”
“Their argument that same-sex marriage was being foisted on a resistant population by "activist judges" has now been swept away, and so all they have left is fulmination and hand-wringing.”
“Gingrich has merely tapped into a fulmination against Alinsky – who was what passes for a left-wing radical in American politics, agitating for better living conditions for the poor in the slums of Chicago and New York – that has been filtered through the likes of right-wing talkshow hosts such as Glenn Beck and Mark Levin.”
The Guardian: Saul Alinsky: who is he and why does Newt Gingrich keep mentioning him?
“(See my previous post about basically-fulmination.)”
“What began as a Securities and Exchange Commission fulmination against an obscure bit of financial engineering—the reverse takeover—has grown into a spate of delistings, shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations amid auditor resignations, charges of accounting irregularities, and a short-selling frenzy.”
“What started around this time last year as a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fulmination against an obscure bit of financial engineering—the reverse takeover—has grown into a spate of delistings, shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations amid auditor resignations, charges of accounting irregularities, and a short-selling frenzy.”
“After much fulmination in newspapers and in the blogosphere, on Monday Google and Verizon announced a proposed "legislative framework" to "preserve the open internet.”
The Huffington Post: James Boyle: Is Google Naive, Crafty or Stupid?
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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MS GRE
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