2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exclamation \Ex`cla*ma"tion\, n. [L. exclamatio: cf F.
exclamation.]
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
Exclamations against abuses in the church. --Hooker.
Thus will I drown your exclamations. --Shak.
A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
--Trench.
2. (Rhet.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word
expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
3. (Print.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic
utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also {exclamation
point}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exclamation
n 1: an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of
delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it" [syn: {exclaiming}]
2: an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn:
{ecphonesis}]
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