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exclaim

verb

  1. mode of speaking
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɛkˈskleɪm/ / /ɪkˈskleɪm/

noun

Etymology: From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).

  1. Exclamation; outcry, clamor.

    Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not; For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.

    Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].

verb

Etymology: From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).

  1. To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

    I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.

    Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.

  2. To say suddenly and with strong emotion.

    Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.

    […] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—