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单词 clamant
释义

Definition of clamant in English:

clamant

adjective ˈkleɪm(ə)ntˈklam(ə)ntˈkleɪmənt
  • Urgently demanding attention.

    the proper use of biotechnology has become a clamant question

    正确使用生物技术已成为一个刻不容缓的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Instead, from day one, they should have shouted from the rooftops the clamant need for the most radical reform.
    • Even the most clamant exponents of the century's avant-gardes, those whose work was seen by others or even by themselves as ‘anti-art,’ have succeeded in expanding the resources of art by opening up the range of its materials and its techniques.
    • Is there not a clamant need today to rally to the cause of The Queen in Parliament, against constitutional and Europhile tinkering?
    • You've been doing more for the system than the clamant renegades or blatant sell-outs you despise.
    • there is more than one meaning for ‘gjöll’ - one of these meanings can be directly translated: noisy, clamant, thunderous and raging.
    Synonyms
    persistent, insistent, tenacious, persevering, dogged, unremitting, unrelenting, tireless, indefatigable

Derivatives

  • clamantly

  • adverb
    • To this day - or at any rate until two or three years ago - Germans were clamantly ‘European’: ‘a European Germany, not a German Europe’, as Chancellor Kohl, quoting Thomas Mann, used to say.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here the exotic accents are presented but they emerge and play chase with a whole palette of cut-glass avant-garde paraphernalia - both clamantly violent and dreamily disengaged.
      • They are well sung and the orchestral role is given the attention its attractions clamantly demand.
      • Do not these terrible figures plead eloquently and clamantly for a revision and reform of our existing hospital system?
      • The old cry of ‘injustice to the Arabs’ has, of course, been raised, not only by the Arabs themselves but even more clamantly by the European ‘pro-Arabs’, whether workers in the refugee camps or not.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin clamant- 'crying out', from the verb clamare.

Rhymes

claimant, payment, raiment

Definition of clamant in US English:

clamant

adjectiveˈklāməntˈkleɪmənt
  • Forcing itself urgently on the attention.

    紧急的,迫切的,刻不容缓的

    the proper use of biotechnology has become a clamant question

    正确使用生物技术已成为一个刻不容缓的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • there is more than one meaning for ‘gjöll’ - one of these meanings can be directly translated: noisy, clamant, thunderous and raging.
    • Even the most clamant exponents of the century's avant-gardes, those whose work was seen by others or even by themselves as ‘anti-art,’ have succeeded in expanding the resources of art by opening up the range of its materials and its techniques.
    • Instead, from day one, they should have shouted from the rooftops the clamant need for the most radical reform.
    • You've been doing more for the system than the clamant renegades or blatant sell-outs you despise.
    • Is there not a clamant need today to rally to the cause of The Queen in Parliament, against constitutional and Europhile tinkering?
    Synonyms
    persistent, insistent, tenacious, persevering, dogged, unremitting, unrelenting, tireless, indefatigable

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin clamant- ‘crying out’, from the verb clamare.

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