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.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 22 b, Wold God there were no other exclamatory crime then this to be obiected against thee. a 1631 Donne Serm. lxiii. (1640) 635 Whom afflictions supple and mollifie no farther but to an intemperate..and exclamatory Sorrow. 1755 Johnson, Exclamatory, practising exclamation. 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 400 The exclamatory vehemence and contagious zeal of his manner. 1883 Stevenson 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.
| a 1716 South Serm. IV. vii. 346 Those exclamatory words of St. Paul..How unsearchable are his judgements. 1727 Art Speaking in Public (ed. 2) 129 To pronounce those exclamatory Expressions without either Grace or Exclamation. 1767 Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IX. xxxiii. 283 Beginning the sentence with an exclamatory whistle. 1824 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 408 (heading of §) Of the Exclamatory point (!). 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt I. Introd. (1866) 2 The tube-journey..is as barren as an exclamatory O! |
Hence exˈclamatorily adv., in an exclamatory manner.
| 1836 in Smart Walker's Dict. 1863 Not an Angel I. 41 ‘My darling!’ exclamatorily. ‘What do you want?’ ‘My darling?’ interrogatively. |