Sekirov Dictionary

exclaim

/ɛkˈskleɪm/

verb 2
noun 1
forms 5

verb2

•
To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
- I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness. — 1591
•
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. — 1603

noun1

•
(no longer used) 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. — 1595

forms

exclaimed · exclaiming · exclaimeth · exclaims · exclaimest

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