fulmination

[ fuhl-muh-ney-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.

  2. violent explosion.

Origin of fulmination

1
1495–1505; <Latin fulminātiōn- (stem of fulminātiō) a thundering, fuming. See fulminate, -ion

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How to use fulmination in a sentence

  • During this fulmination, Holland stood very quiet, and when he was about to depart, he begged permission to speak a few words.

  • Doubtless Erasmus knew his Rome well enough before he ventured to send such a fulmination as this into the midst of it.

  • Despite this fulmination of fury, the worthy bishop continued to use his threatened head in the service of mercy and sympathy.

  • Miss Sheridan, apparently for mere exclamatory purposes, now reread the fulmination of the absent partner.

    The Sturdy Oak | Samuel Merwin, et al.
  • Here was indeed a fulmination to strike an Englishman breathless and dumb with amazement.

    Benjamin Franklin | John Torrey Morse, Jr.