clamant

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Both are clamant at this moment in you and me, clamant in you as you read these words, clamant in me as I write them.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

I remember dwelling in imagination upon this or that dish till my mouth watered; and long before we got in for the night my appetite was a clamant, instant annoyance.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

By 1817 the grievance had become clamant; and when that inquisitive agitator, Robert Gourlay, asked the farmers of Upper Canada what hindered settlement, he received the answer—Clergy Reserves.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

A shrewish voice rose in the darkness before him, and other voices, angry, clamant, protesting, struck in.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

And, therefore, what a clamant and urgent need there is for love-fires at which to kindle these souls that are heavy, and burdened, and cold.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry