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Exclamation   /ˌɛkskləmˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Exclamation

noun
1.
An abrupt excited utterance.  Synonym: exclaiming.  "There was much exclaiming over it"
2.
A loud complaint or protest or reproach.
3.
An exclamatory rhetorical device.  Synonym: ecphonesis.



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"Exclamation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Buckwheat. My first thought was that in some stupid way he had got the acid into his own eyes. But the terrible fashion in which he coughed and strangled would quickly have undeceived me, had not Louis, bending over the booby-companion, uttered a startled exclamation. ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... exclamation; that was all. I waited but he never returned. Then I walked home. Next morning, after the office opened, they came to inquire. About twelve o'clock we heard the terrible news. Oh, Mr. Holmes, if you could only, only save his honour! It was ...
— The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans • Arthur Conan Doyle
... attempts of these savages, but likewise to relieve this miserable victim. This could only be done by escaping from the cavern and returning with seasonable aid. The sobs of the girl were likely to rouse the sleepers. My appearance before her would prompt her to testify her surprise by some exclamation or shriek. What could hence be predicted but that the band would start on their feet and level their unerring pieces ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown
... bull's-eyes, now and then exclaiming as some shad or other fair-sized fish came into view. Suddenly, however, his exclamation ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... engineer told him in confidence was never disclosed, for at that moment Miss Morris interrupted him with a sudden sharp exclamation. ...
— The Princess Aline • Richard Harding Davis


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