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English Dictionary: vociferation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vociferation
n
  1. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
    Synonym(s): cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vociferation \Vo*cif`er*a"tion\, n. [L. vociferatio: cf. F.
      vocif[82]ration.]
      The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance
      of the voice.
  
               Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the
               hearts of the ignorant.                           --Spectator.
  
               Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of
               emotion or of pain.                                 --Byron.
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