Lexic.us

Definition of Exclamation

1. Noun. An abrupt excited utterance. "There was much exclaiming over it"

2. Noun. A loud complaint or protest or reproach.

3. Noun. An exclamatory rhetorical device. "O tempore! O mores"

Definition of Exclamation

1. n. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.

Definition of Exclamation

1. Noun. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. ¹

2. Noun. A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. ¹

3. Noun. A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; – also called an exclamation point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exclamation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclamation

excitosecretory excitotoxic excitotoxicity excitotoxin excitotoxins excitotoxity excitovascular exclaim exclaimed exclaimer

exclaimers exclaimeth exclaiming exclaims exclam exclamation exclamation-mark exclamation mark exclamation marks exclamation point

exclamation point hair exclamation points exclamational exclamations exclamative exclamatorily exclamatory exclame exclave exclaves

Literary usage of Exclamation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"THE ACCUSATIVE OF Exclamation IN PLAUTUS AND TERENCE. Ever since Ritschl brought the study of Plautus into fashion monographs on special points of Plautine ..."

2. A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1892)
"THE Exclamation POINT. The Exclamation Point is used for marking strong emotion. ... In regard to the portion of discourse set off by it, the exclamation ..."

3. The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and by Goold Brown (1858)
""Question point,"—"Exclamation pointr—Я'- born, p. 272. SECTION L—THE COMMA. The Comma is used to separate those parts of a sentence, which are so nearly ..."

4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"In Gammer Gurton's Needle, the Bayly administers this oath to Diccon : 2. For a lamentation, or exclamation of sorrow : Why should von fall ..."

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