All 3 Uses
clamor
in
The Devil and Tom Walker
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- The lonely wayfarer shrank within himself at the horrid clamor and clapper-clawing; eyed the den of discord askance; and hurried on his way, rejoicing, if a bachelor, in his celibacy.†
*clamor = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- At length, it is said, just in the brown hour of twilight, when the owls began to hoot and the bats to flit about, his attention was attracted by the clamor of carrion crows hovering about a cypress-tree.†
- Indeed, one might always tell when he had sinned most during the week by the clamor of his Sunday devotion.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)