different between clamour vs brawling

English

Alternative forms

• clamor (US spelling)

Etymology

From Latin cl?mor (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæm.?/
• Rhymes: -æm?(r)

Noun

clamour (countable and uncountable, plural clamours)

1. British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
   • c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost

     Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.

Verb

clamour (third-person singular simple present clamours, present participle clamouring, simple past and past participle clamoured)

1. Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
2. (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel

     Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Warburton to this entry?)

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman clamour, from an earlier clamur, from Latin clamor

Noun

clamour (plural clamours)

1. shout; cry; clamor

Synonyms

• crie, crye

Old French

Noun

clamour f (oblique plural clamours, nominative singular clamour, nominative plural clamours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of clamur

   querele oie ne pleinte ne clamour

English

Verb

brawling

1. present participle of brawl

Noun

brawling (plural brawlings)

1. An unruly fight; a brawl.
   • 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury

     Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.

Anagrams

• warbling