Exclamation
Exclamation , noun
[Latin exclamatio: compare French exclamation.]
1.
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
Exclamations against abuses in the church.
Thus will I drown your exclamations.
A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
2.
(Rhetoric) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
3.
(Printing) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.