vociferant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of vociferant
1600–10; < Latin vōciferant- (stem of vōciferāns ), present participle of vociferārī to vociferate; see -ant
Example Sentences
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The night life of any dockside is as vociferant as the day.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
My mind was full of the scene I had left, That placid flock, that pastor vociferant, —How this outside was pure and different!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
She sat, with her vociferant Twins, And thanked the man of One Lame Leg.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
My mind was full of the scene I had left, That placid flock, that pastor vociferant, —How this outside was pure and different!
From Christmas Eve by Robert Browning
Some other friend had given his boys a "vociferant burro."
From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field
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