Literary notes about Clamant (AI summary)
The term "clamant" frequently functions as a versatile descriptor in literature, simultaneously invoking the sound of an outcry and the metaphorical force of a pressing need. In some passages, it underscores literal noise—voices rising clamantly, bells and whistles clamant in the air ([1], [2], [3])—while in others, it conveys an urgent demand or imbalance, as when a nation is clamant for aid or reform ([4], [5], [6]). At times, the word enriches the imagery by depicting both the physical and emotional intensity of a scene, whether describing the clamant multitudes filling a square ([7], [8]) or highlighting the persistent and insistent cries of human desire and social challenge ([9], [10]).
- Yells and loud whistles rose clamant in the air, and his own name was shouted to and fro.
— from A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison - behold!"–This clamant word Broke through the careful silence; for they heard A rustling noise of leaves, and out there flutter'd Pigeons and doves:
— from Endymion: A Poetic Romance by John Keats - Then short and sharp, piercing note on piercing note, sounded the shrill, clamant voice.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams - But meanwhile, the enemy has struck at Italy, and Italy, reeling under his blows, is clamant for aid.
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs. - There was clamant need for reform in every department of the State.
— from Andrew Melville by William Morison - Yet the Conservative Opposition, led by Mr. Disraeli, made no attempt to resist it; the case for legislation was too clamant.
— from Sixty Years a Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign by Maxwell, Herbert, Sir - Both are clamant at this moment in you and me, clamant in you as you read these words, clamant in me as I write them.
— from Religious Perplexities by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks - We pressed through the clamant multitude until we had reached the middle of the square.
— from The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini - I am simply an enquirer, trying to arrive at the truth regarding this clamant social problem.
— from The Fertility of the Unfit by W. A. (William Allan) Chapple - And, therefore, what a clamant and urgent need there is for love-fires at which to kindle these souls that are heavy, and burdened, and cold.
— from The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
