clamatory

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

clamatory (not comparable)

1. (rare) Crying out, calling out; claiming, demanding.
   • 1855, The Natural History of Pliny, page 493:

     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.

   • 1899, Herbert George Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple, page 7:

     […] 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  ...

   • 1986, Judith Summerfield, Geoffrey Summerfield, Texts and Contexts: A Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition, page 63:

     "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."

   • 2004, John Clare, Selected Poems, Penguin, →ISBN:

     It is, then, hardly surprising that Clare's poetry takes on a clamatory and elegiac note, a note of urgency, protest and grief, […]