exclamation
/ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃən/ noun B1- The act of loudly calling or crying out, for example, as in anger, grief or pain, joy, surprise, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- The act of loudly complaining or protesting; (countable) an instance of this; a complaint, an outcry, a protest.
- Synonym of interjection (“a phrase or word with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence but which serves to express emotion or as a filled pause”).
- Synonym of ecphonesis (”(uncountable) the making of an emotional utterance; (countable) an instance of this; an exclamatory phrase”); also, synonym of epiphonema (“(countable) an exclamatory phrase or reflection used to round off or summarize an argument or discourse”).
Plural exclamations
From the library
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.
For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent.
“What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?” cried he.
She thought in exclamation points.
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