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A fulmination is the angry blast itself — the speech, the letter, the outburst — not the verb of doing it. If someone fulminates, what comes out of their mouth is a fulmination. It is a strong, rather literary noun for a loud, heated attack in words: a denunciation that feels like thunder. You might read about a bishop’s fulmination against greed, or sit through a principal’s fulmination about phones in class. It is not a mild complaint and not a careful argument; it is the storm. Newspapers and older books like this word more than everyday talk does. Though actually, because it comes from the same lightning family as fulminate, it still carries that picture of something striking down from above, not a quiet aside between friends. One person can deliver several fulminations in a row if they are truly wound up.
痛斥；猛烈的抨擊（指那番話或那場發作）
組成From Middle French fulmination, from Latin fulminātiō; in English it is fulmine + the noun ending -ation, “the act or the burst of doing it”.
同家族的字
- fulminatethe verb: to criticise someone or something in this angry, thunderous way
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fulminationnoun/fʌlmɪˈneɪʃən/
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The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
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The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
- It is curious, reading the fulminations of American purists of the last generation, to note how many of the Americanisms they denounced have not only got into perfectly good usage at home but even broken down all guards across the ocean.
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That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。