All 3 Uses of
clamor
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this venerable witch-lady had heard Mr. Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.†
p. 100.6clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- Thus the Puritan elders in their black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats, smiled not unbenignantly at the clamour and rude deportment of these jolly seafaring men; and it excited neither surprise nor animadversion when so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel.†
p. 156.8
- Now was heard again the clamour of the music, and the measured tramp of the military escort issuing from the church door.†
p. 166.4 *
Definition:
loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice