conclamation means an outcry or shout of many together. It carries an Arena rating of 1682, earned across 51 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, conclamation ranks #1,358 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,185 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #2,837 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #3,436 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “conclamation” is a great word
CONCLAMATION — [Noun] A collective outcry or shout, especially a loud, simultaneous lamentation for the dead. From the Latin conclamatio (a shouting together), from con- (together) and clamare (to shout). First attested in English in 1627. Unlike "lamentation" (which suggests a formal, often sustained expression of grief) or "clamor" (which implies a noisy, confused demand), conclamation is the single, unified voice of a crowd in acute, shared anguish. It is the raw, shattering sound that rises from a battlefield at dusk, the communal wail that greets a tragic pronouncement from the palace steps, the ragged chorus of breath from a crowd as a coffin is lowered—the moment private sorrow becomes a public fact.
Etymology
From Latin conclamatio.
noun
- An outcry or shout of many together.e.g.“Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe
A dying man's amazed houshold show,
Before his funerall conclamation […].” — 1631, Thomas May, Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar, The Second Book:
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