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Exclaim

//ɛkˈskleɪm// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Exclamation; outcry, clamor. obsolete

    "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."

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

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

  2. 2
    utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy wordnet
  3. 3
    To say suddenly and with strong emotion. transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    state or announce wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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