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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exclamation \Ex`cla*ma"tion\, n. [L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation.]
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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.
Exclamations against abuses in the church.
--Hooker.Thus will I drown your exclamations.
--Shak.A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
--Trench. (Rhet.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
(Print.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamationem (nominative exclamatio) "an exclamation" (in rhetoric), "a loud calling or crying out," noun of action from past participle stem of exclamare "cry out loud" (see exclaim).\n
\nThe punctuation symbol known as the exclamation point (1824) or exclamation mark (1926) was earliest called an exclamation note or note of exclamation (1650s), earlier note of admiration (1610s). Another name for it was shriek-mark (1864).
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. 3 A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; – also called an exclamation point.
WordNet
n. an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it" [syn: exclaiming]
a loud complaint or protest or reproach
an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn: ecphonesis]
Wikipedia
Exclamation may refer to:
- Exclamation mark, the punctuation mark "!"
- Phrasal exclamation, an emphatic phrase or clause
- Exclamation, an emphatic interjection
- Exclamation, a statement against penal interest in criminal law in United States
- Exclamation, a fragrance by Coty, Inc.
Usage examples of "exclamation".
While these unfinished exclamations were actually passing my lips I chanced to cross that infernal mat, and it is no more startling than true, but at my word a quiver of expectation ran through that gaunt web--a rustle of anticipation filled its ancient fabric, and one frayed corner surged up, and as I passed off its surface in my stride, the sentence still unfinished on my lips, wrapped itself about my left leg with extraordinary swiftness and so effectively that I nearly fell into the arms of my landlady, who opened the door at the moment and came in with a tray and the steak and tomatoes mentioned more than once already.
He stopped a moment on seeing Bernard, glanced at his wife, blushed, flushed, and with a loud, frank exclamation of pleasure, grasped his friend by both hands.
Amazonian fair having overthrown and bestrid her enemy, was now cuffing him lustily with both her hands, without any regard to his request of a cessation of arms, or to those loud exclamations of murder which he roared forth.
As she disappeared, Quincy Brimmer rose irresolutely from his seat and checked a half uttered exclamation.
But they say that the truth of this thing has never had a chance to be proved, for the reason that before any stranger can walk from the drawbridge to the appointed place, the beauty of the palace front will extort an exclamation of delight from him.
The door opened, and Mallard, who had come to see whether Elgar was still here, heard his exclamation.
The merwoman remained weak and dizzy, having expended much of her remaining store of energy in the production of that excellent exclamation.
At this we both broke out into an exclamation of dismay, and explained that we should as soon think of overthrowing ourselves.
As the canoe rose high on a swell, the native gave an exclamation and pointed to the beach of sand at the base of the cliffs, where something lay huddled beneath a small pandanus tree.
Peering down through a tangle of thorny pandanus, Minarii gave a sudden low exclamation.
His formerly solemn features became animated, he made exclamations that Pander could not understand, and once he laughed at nothing for the sheer joy of it.
Tom Idle had explained to his sister exactly what had happened to him, beginning when he was awakened by the exclamation of a bum known as Seedy Smith, in a Salt Lake City park, and ending where he was now, sitting in the Utah penitentiary with the name of Hondo Weatherbee, outlaw.
He had already slept nine hours, and might perhaps have slept longer, had he not been awakened by a most violent noise at his chamber-door, where the sound of many heavy blows was accompanied with many exclamations of murder.
The Nunciant uttered a set of ritual exclamations, and again Ramus Ymph stepped forward.
She stood up, leaned back on her hind feet, dug her foreclaws into the ground well in front of her, gave her vertebrae a thorough stretching, then recompacted herself and walked casually toward the Giants, her tail carried like a tall exclamation point over the round dot beneath.