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noun

Interjection n.

The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected. "The interjection of laughing."

(Gram.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation. "An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech." "How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!"

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"Interjection" Quotes from Famous Books

... Theo. It seemed to her so strange a thing for Miss Priscilla Gower to say, that her pronoun was almost an interjection. ...

— Theo - A Sprightly Love Story • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett

... Sir William Blackstone states that buz used to be an interjection at Oxford when any one began a story that was ...

— Hamlet • William Shakespeare

... clasping his young mistress's waist, sitting very lovingly by her side on a sofa, while Arabella and her pretty handmaid feigned to be absorbed in looking out of a window at the other end of the room. At sight of which phenomenon the fat boy uttered an interjection, the ladies a scream, and the gentleman an ...

— The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz

... An interjection can sometimes express more than words. My sweetheart's left me wondering just what she meant. There was amusement in it, but there was, too, a demure suppression to which I had not ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... for the first time. It always arises out of the occasion, and has the stamp of originality. There is no parroting of himself. His look is a continual, ever-varying history-piece of what passes in his mind. His face is as a book. There need no marks of interjection or interrogation to what he says. His manner is quite picturesque. There is an excess of character and naivete that never tires. His thoughts bubble up and sparkle, like beads on old wine. The fund of anecdote, the collection of curious particulars, is enough to set up any ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

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