Definition of Exclamations

1. Noun. (plural of exclamation) ¹

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Definition of Exclamations

1. exclamation [n] - See also: exclamation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclamations

exclaimed
exclaimer
exclaimers
exclaimeth
exclaiming
exclaims
exclam
exclamation
exclamation-mark
exclamation mark
exclamation marks
exclamation point
exclamation point hair
exclamation points
exclamational
exclamations
exclamative
exclamatorily
exclamatory
exclame
exclave
exclaves
exclosure
exclosures
excludabilities
excludability
excludable
exclude
excluded
excludee

Literary usage of Exclamations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"ACCUSATIVE IN Exclamations. RULE XI.—Accusative in Exclamations. 381. ... may be used in exclamations : Heu me miserum, AH ME unhappy! Cic. ..."

2. A Complete Latin Grammar by Albert Harkness (1898)
"The Ethical Dative is used in exclamations after ei, vae, ecce, ... 2 Some of the Accusatives found in exclamations are readily explained as the object of ..."

3. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"Introductory; Res Gesta;; Discrimination between the Verbal Act Doctrine and the Exception for Spontaneous Exclamations. § 1746. The Present Cases a Genuine ..."

4. A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified by Stephen W. Clark (1859)
"Exclamations. RULE 14.—Exclamations have -no dependent construction. OBS.—Exclamations may be followed by Words, Phrases, or Sentences. EXAMPLES.—1. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Declarations of third parties and cries and exclamations of bystanders.—Declarations or exclamations uttered by third persons, not associated with the ..."

6. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"The stop should be used, with one exception, only after real exclamations. Real exclamations include (1) the words recognized as interjections, as alas, ..."

7. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"NOMINATIVE IN Exclamations. 296. A noun or pronoun may be used as an ... No one, however, has a complete sentence in mind in using such exclamations. ..."

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