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fulmination

[ fuhl-muh-ney-shuhn ]

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noun

1495–1505; < Latin fulminātiōn- (stem of fulminātiō ) a thundering, fuming. See fulminate, -ion

During this fulmination, Holland stood very quiet, and when he was about to depart, he begged permission to speak a few words.

Doubtless Erasmus knew his Rome well enough before he ventured to send such a fulmination as this into the midst of it.

Despite this fulmination of fury, the worthy bishop continued to use his threatened head in the service of mercy and sympathy.

Miss Sheridan, apparently for mere exclamatory purposes, now reread the fulmination of the absent partner.

Here was indeed a fulmination to strike an Englishman breathless and dumb with amazement.

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