different between turmoil vs clamour

English

Etymology

Unknown origin. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??m??l/

Noun

turmoil (usually uncountable, plural turmoils)

1. A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
2. Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.

Synonyms

• chaos, disorder

Translations

Verb

turmoil (third-person singular simple present turmoils, present participle turmoiling, simple past and past participle turmoiled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

   • some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates

2. (obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

   • It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

Further reading

• turmoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• turmoil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• turmoil at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “turmoil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

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