Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rhetorical exclamation or ejaculation. See
ecphonesis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric
interjection ;ecphonesis
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek a thing called out.
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