clamant

American  

[kley-muhnt, klam-uhnt] / ˈkleɪ mənt, ˈklæm ənt /

adjective

1. clamorous; noisy.

2. compelling or pressing; urgent.

   a clamant need for reform.

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clamant British  

/ ˈkleɪmənt /

adjective

1. noisy

2. calling urgently

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Other Word Forms

• clamantly adverb

Etymology

Origin of clamant

First recorded in 1630–40; from Latin clāmant- (stem of clāmāns, present participle of clāmāre “to shout”), equivalent to clām- ( see claim) + -ant- -ant

Example Sentences

Equally clamant was the need of information and instruction.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

It was right, however, that the clamant demands for relief, uttered by her starving millions, should not stifle the smaller voice of suffering that issued from our Scottish shores.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

Along this stillness steals their ghostly laughter: The oaths they swore, the clamant song and jest, Are haunting still each oaken beam and rafter, That looked on many a gay, forgotten guest.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

Now he sorted all he had heard out on a system based on an intimate knowledge of his fellow-countrymen's methods in the face of clamant danger.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

I gave him £50 of my own to meet clamant demands, and besought him to secure me a day or two of delay that something might be done.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James