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>"Proquiritations" is an archaic, rare, or obsolete English word that refers to the act of crying out, clamoring, or making a public outcry.

Because I've never seen that word before I thought I'd put that here.

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Will file that away as well, seems like it could be useful in various professional contexts.

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I'm not sure, but Sir Urquhart may have invented the word, and he's essentially the only person to have ever used it. It's presumably based on the latin quirites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirites

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