exclaim
verb
- mode of speaking
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈskleɪm/ / /ɪkˈskleɪm/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).
- 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”).
- 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.”
- 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?”—”