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Exclamatory

Exclamatory \Ex*clam"a*to*ry\, a. Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
--South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclamatory

1590s, from Latin exclamat-, past participle stem of exclamare "to call out" (see exclaim) + -ory.

Wiktionary
exclamatory

a. 1 resembling an exclamation. 2 emphatic.

WordNet
exclamatory

adj. sudden and strong; "an emphatic no" [syn: emphatic]

Usage examples of "exclamatory".

The first consequence of that vigorous nip was a momentary dance up and down in the punt, accompanied by exclamatory howls from Dick, but not by a word of any sort from the crab.

This remark drew some sort of exclamatory protest from every other person in the room save Browne.

Here everything has an exclamatory glow about it, a euphemistic sheen to needs manufactured and met.

Once past the exclamatory stage, she seemed a great talker, laying bare her little soul with perfect liberality.

Jinking bats, now three in number, frolicked in their aerial feast, and the paper-fragile exoskeleton of each doomed moth made a faint but audible crunch when snapped in those rodent teeth: entire death announcements in crisp strokes of exclamatory punctuation.

Challoner quite saw the force of all this, and was at once prolific of plans for the acquiring of a suitable gown, and exclamatory over the pleasure in store for her daughter.

And Ralph, in the midst of cries exclamatory, and no little laughter, emptied the contents of the basket on the velvet sward, variegated by the sunlight through the boughs, and fit for kings.

Virginia, and Sam Reddon met the party at the Chicago station and escorted the exclamatory laborers to their new home on the upper floor of the old mansion.

Within the priest's fervent exclamatory credos, within their awesome reiterations, there was a kind of strange eldritch beauty, like the terrible beauty of an approaching storm out of the high hills.