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Definition of Exclamations
1. exclamation [n] - See also: exclamation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclamations
Literary usage of Exclamations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"ACCUSATIVE IN exclamations. RULE XI.—Accusative in exclamations. 381. ... may be
used in exclamations : Heu me miserum, AH ME unhappy! Cic. ..."
2. A Complete Latin Grammar by Albert Harkness (1898)
"The Ethical Dative is used in exclamations after ei, vae, ecce, ... 2 Some of
the Accusatives found in exclamations are readily explained as the object of ..."
3. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"Introductory; Res Gesta;; Discrimination between the Verbal Act Doctrine and the
Exception for Spontaneous exclamations. § 1746. The Present Cases a Genuine ..."
4. A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified by Stephen W. Clark (1859)
"exclamations. RULE 14.—exclamations have -no dependent construction. OBS.—exclamations
may be followed by Words, Phrases, or Sentences. EXAMPLES.—1. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Declarations of third parties and cries and exclamations of bystanders.—Declarations
or exclamations uttered by third persons, not associated with the ..."
6. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"The stop should be used, with one exception, only after real exclamations.
Real exclamations include (1) the words recognized as interjections, as alas, ..."
7. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"NOMINATIVE IN exclamations. 296. A noun or pronoun may be used as an ... No one,
however, has a complete sentence in mind in using such exclamations. ..."
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