vociferation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vociferation
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vōciferātiōn- (stem of vōciferātiō ), equivalent to vōciferāt ( us ) ( see vociferate) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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The firing was continued till it was almost dark with eager zest, but much irregularity, and almost as great an expenditure of animal spirits in vociferation, as of powder and bullets.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
He could hear voices behind—at the inn—a chorus of rough voices in loud vociferation.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
His courtiers and viziers exerted their efforts to soothe his extravagance; but, finding every expedient ineffectual, they all united in one vociferation, “The caliph is gone mad! the caliph is out of his senses!”
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
So saying he rushed out, and did not observe that the maiden was looking down again from above into the saloon, to which she had been drawn by the vociferation of the quarrellers.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
At last, after an hour and a half of laborious vociferation, I managed to get the pyramid done and Cheops put into it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
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