fulmination

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Gorblimy--draggin' us out 'ere inter this bloody misery--it makes me blood boil This fulmination was interrupted by shouts of "Shut up" and "'Old yer jaw" and "Put a sock in it" and "Let's get a bit o' sleep," but there was no chance of further sleep.

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  1. The act of fulminating, exploding, or detonating; the act of thundering forth denunciations, threats, censures, and the like, with authority and violence. The prelates of the realm, the ministers and curates, were desired to execute all sacraments, sacramentals, and divine services, in spite of any fulminations of interdicts, inhibitions, or excommunications, on pain of a year's imprisonment. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., iii.
  2. That which is fulminated or thundered forth, as a menace or censure. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. Ayliffe, Parergon. The fulminations of Demosthenes and the splendors of Tully. Sumner, True Grandeur of Nations.

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  • When some Bob Grant fulmination on WABC-AM would go on too long, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say to myself, "I'm falling asleep." —  Latest Articles
  • He goes into fulmination mode: how could she have any informed opinion about him if she's only listened once? —  Blog entry
  • And there is further fulmination inside headlined: "Isn't it time that this silly boy Harry was growing up?" —  BBC Blog Network
  • Perhaps somewhat related, there's a lot of fulmination about HB 875, mostly repeating the false claims about "government control" of the food supply and "making home gardens illegal", taken from a widely circulated and recirculated email sent by anti-regulation and other right wing sources. —  BlueOregon
  • But he also now spices appearances with spluttered outrage at how Mrs Palin and Mr McCain are portraying themselves as agents of change - or fulmination over the media's failure to subject the Republicans to proper scrutiny. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. = French fulmination = Provencal fulminatio = Spanish fulminacion = Portuguese fulminação = Italian fulminazione, from Latin fulminatio (n-), from fulminare, lighten, strike or blast with lightning: see fulminate.
 

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