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English
Etymology
From Latin clamationem.
Noun
clamation (plural clamations)
- (obsolete) An exclamation; a crying-out or call.
- 1658: But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 36)