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exclamatory, a.|ɛkˈsklæmətərɪ|
[f. L. exclāmāt- ppl. stem of exclāmāre + -ory.]
1. That exclaims or cries out loudly; that utters exclamations. Of a feeling, etc.: That vents itself in exclamation; noisy, outspoken.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 22 b, Wold God there were no other exclamatory crime then this to be obiected against thee. a1631Donne Serm. lxiii. (1640) 635 Whom afflictions supple and mollifie no farther but to an intemperate..and exclamatory Sorrow. 1755Johnson, Exclamatory, practising exclamation. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 400 The exclamatory vehemence and contagious zeal of his manner. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. i. vi. (1886) 48 You are so..hot-headed and exclamatory that I cannot get a word in.
2. Of or pertaining to exclamation; of the nature of or resembling an exclamation; containing, expressing, or marking an exclamation.
a1716South Serm. IV. vii. 346 Those exclamatory words of St. Paul..How unsearchable are his judgements. 1727Art Speaking in Public (ed. 2) 129 To pronounce those exclamatory Expressions without either Grace or Exclamation. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IX. xxxiii. 283 Beginning the sentence with an exclamatory whistle. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 408 (heading of §) Of the Exclamatory point (!). 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt I. Introd. (1866) 2 The tube-journey..is as barren as an exclamatory O!
Hence exˈclamatorily adv., in an exclamatory manner.
1836in Smart Walker's Dict. 1863Not an Angel I. 41 ‘My darling!’ exclamatorily. ‘What do you want?’ ‘My darling?’ interrogatively. |