a. [ad. L. clāmānt-em, pr. pple. of clāmāre to cry out.]
1. lit. Crying out, clamorous, noisy.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xxvi. 95. A Clamant Woeman, or of many words.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 350. Winter … and a train Of clamant children dear.
1806. J. Grahame, Birds of Scot., 43. The numerous progeny, clamant for food.
b. of sounds, etc. (with mixture of sense 2).
1818. Keats, Endymion, II. This clamant word Broke through the careful silence.
1888. Mrs. Oliphant, Joyce, I. 196. The sound … became every moment more and more clamant.
2. fig. ‘Crying,’ urgent. Chiefly in Sc. writers.
a. 1687. R. McWard, Earnest Contend. for Faith (1723), 2 (Jam.). A clear and continued Testimony against the clamant Wickedness.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt. (1852), 460. In order to the rectification of a clamant evil.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, III. VIII. ix. 545. The abuses became every day more clamant.
1878. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 195. My appetite was a clamant, instant annoyance.
