exclaim

UK /ɛkˈskleɪm/ US /ɛkˈskleɪm/
verb 2noun 1

Definitions

verb

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?”—

noun

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 [...].

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