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In some senses, clarion is marked as figuratively, historical, poetic, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
loud, silver, vocal
VERB + CLARION
brought, like
CLARION + NOUN
excelsior, s, stamina
noun
A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
The clarion’s call to action has been heard.
Then ſtrait commands that at the warlike ſound / Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard / His mighty Standard; […]
The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
Others [i.e., other birds] on ground / Walk'd firm; the creſted Cock whoſe clarion ſounds / The ſilent hours, and th' other whoſe gay Traine / Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue / Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes.
And his this Drum, vvhoſe hoarſe heroic baſe / Drovvns the loud Clarion of the braying Aſs.
An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
The middle register of the clarinet.
A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
adj
Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
her clarion top notes
And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
verb
To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
His deep voice clarioned the words and he paused, hearing them whisper away into their last faint echoes in the organ loft.
He [Martin Luther King Jr.] clarioned a call to action that was heard wherever Afro-Christians could be found (and beyond, if one recalls Pentecostalism).
Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
Sir Knight, thy glory clarioneth the heavens.
To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
[T]hou, young-bodied morn, / In-ushered by the puffed winds clarioning, / No bond can bind.
We dogs are all a-mourning; but thou [a rooster] clappest thy wings and clarionest thy loudest and treadest hen after hen.
The clarion’s call to action has been heard.
WiktionaryThen ſtrait commands that at the warlike ſound / Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard / His mighty Standard; […]
WiktionaryAnd like a silver clarion rung / The accents of that unknown tongue, / Excelsior!
Wiktionaryher clarion top notes
WiktionaryAnd loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
WiktionaryClay Hilley brought vocal heft, clarion sound and stamina to the role, though there were stretches where his voice sounded strained, understandably so, given the demands.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, clarion is marked as figuratively, historical, poetic, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.