clamatory

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Some persons say that it [the "clivia"] was a clamatory, others, again, that it was a prohibitory, bird. We also find a bird mentioned by Nigidius as the “subis," which breaks the eggs of the eagle."
"[…] dazzling white clouds and the intensest blue, casting a powder of wonderful green hither and thither among the trees and rousing all the birds to tumultuous rejoicings; a rousing day, a clamatory insistent day, a veritable herald of summer. The stir of that anticipation was in the air, the warm earth was parting above the swelling seeds, and all the pine-woods ..."
""Poor children!" which is an elliptical vocative form: "Oh, the poor children!"—a clamatory or deploratory form of some such utterance as “The bowels of my compassion are moved by (or, when I think of) the poor children.""
"It is, then, hardly surprising that Clare's poetry takes on a clamatory and elegiac note, a note of urgency, protest and grief, […]"

Probably from the stem of Latin clamatus + -ory; equivalent to claim + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory, reclamatory.