vociferation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vociferation
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vōciferātiōn- (stem of vōciferātiō ), equivalent to vōciferāt ( us ) ( see vociferate) + -iōn- -ion
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"A—a—Miss Katey, take the bushblunder out ov his hand 'fore he blows my brains out," and the shrieks were renewed with more vociferation than before.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
After much vociferation we both ended by appealing to the future, that enlightened and upright judge who always, alas! arrives too late.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville
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
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
As I was taking a sketch in a quiet corner I heard a vociferation so loud, so vehement, and so varied, that I really thought two or three people were quarrelling close to me.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Edward Stanley
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