Talk:clarion

Has anyone found an adjective use for this word that is not followed by the word "Call"?. I've tried recently to use this word more often, and I find that it has no other obvious uses. Does anyone have another poetic use of the word without rehashing the "clarion call"?


 * Merriam-Webster dictionary now lists "her clarion top notes" as an example sentence. Lexico gives "clarion trumpeters" as an example sentence. Inner Focus (talk) 12:49, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2016–May 2017
Adjective: "loud and clear". The example given is clarion call, which really seems like a set phrase of its own (and two nouns rather than Adj+N). You can't say "that call was clarion", or ask how clarion it sounded, etc. Equinox ◑ 14:46, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * The OED treats this (and a few other examples) as attributive use of the noun, not as an adjective.   D b f  i  r  s   17:01, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Exactly. We just need to remove the adjective section and add a brief explanatory note. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's attributive. DonnanZ (talk) 10:28, 13 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Adjective sense RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:15, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Loud and clear
Three years ago, the sense "loud and clear" was removed as it supposedly failed RFV. Now, as of November 2020, plenty of online dictionaries, such as Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Dictionary.com, now list this sense, so I have added it back. Inner Focus (talk) 12:44, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * P.S. Admittedly most of them still list "clarion call" as an example, but, as I noted in my reply to the top comment on this page a few minutes ago, I have found at least two examples of "clarion" being followed by a noun other than "call." Inner Focus (talk) 12:51, 28 November 2020 (UTC)