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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Interjection \In`ter*jec"tion\, n. [L. interjectio: cf F.
interjection. See {Interject}.]
1. The act of interjecting or throwing between; also that
which is interjected.
The interjection of laughing. --Bacon.
2. (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. --Earle.
How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of
laughing, as ah ha he! --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
interjection
n 1: an abrupt emphatic exclamation [syn: {ejaculation}]
2: an action or remark that interrupts [syn: {interposition}, {interpolation}]
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