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fulmination
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synonyms: censure, reproach, obloquy, animadversion ???
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Definition:1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---the word is frequently used in medical contexts to describe diseases which progress very quickly (i.e. explosively) towards death
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Suddenly it seemed to her that fiery spheres were exploding in the air like fulminating balls when they strike,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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Over six hundred speeches were discharged, ranging from eight-minute hallos delivered to the crowds gathered at stations, to two-hour fulminations in auditoriums and fairgrounds.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front—it made no difference.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
Ayliffe.
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"Give him Ewing's tumor," Yossarian advised Doc Daneeka, who would come to Yossarian for help in handling Hungry Joe, "and follow it up with melanoma. Hungry Joe likes lingering diseases, but he likes the fulminating ones even more."
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.172 (1961)
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House: Chase, get your nose in here.
Chase: If you're trying to humiliate me, I told you...
House: Come on. Put your face in his mouth.
Chase: Ugh!
House: Rich, wouldn't you say?
Chase: Mm. Smells like old vomit.
House: Number one sign of fulminating osteomyelitis.
David Shore. House, M.D., season 1: Love Hurts (2005)
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a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer, puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by poetic justice,
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.70 (1932)
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