exclaim
English
Alternative forms
- exclame [16th-17th c.]
Etymology
From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈskleɪm/, /ɪkˈskleɪm/
- Rhymes: -eɪm
Verb
exclaim (third-person singular simple present exclaims, present participle exclaiming, simple past and past participle exclaimed)
- (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3,
- I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
- Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 9, p. 33,
- Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 12,
- This wretched note was the finale of Emma’s breakfast. When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.
- 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, p. 114,
- […] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […]
- 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 285,
- […] at the front door below a few guests were leaving, and the bright rectangle widened and narrowed as they slipped out into the night, laughing and exclaiming about the weather.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3,
- (transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.
- 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second, London: N. Ling, “Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince,” p. 31,
- 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.
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 2, Chapter 40, p. 28,
- […] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 12,
- Without returning any direct reply, Miss Squeers, all at once, fell into a paroxysm of spiteful tears, and exclaimed that she was a wretched, neglected, miserable castaway.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- 2017, André Aciman, Enigma Variations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, “Manfred,” p. 135,
- You never pump your arm when you score, you never exclaim anything, you don’t even smile when you fire a perfect backhand straight down the line.
- 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second, London: N. Ling, “Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince,” p. 31,
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:shout
Derived terms
Related terms
▼ <a href='/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_PIE_root_*kelh%E2%82%81-' title='Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *kelh₁-'>English terms derived from the PIE root *kelh₁-</a> (0 c, 27 e)
<a href='/wiki/acclaim' title='acclaim'>acclaim</a>
<a href='/wiki/acclamate' title='acclamate'>acclamate</a>
<a href='/wiki/acclamation' title='acclamation'>acclamation</a>
<a href='/wiki/acclamatory' title='acclamatory'>acclamatory</a>
<a href='/wiki/calends' title='calends'>calends</a>
<a href='/wiki/claim' title='claim'>claim</a>
<a href='/wiki/clamor' title='clamor'>clamor</a>
<a href='/wiki/clamorous' title='clamorous'>clamorous</a>
<a href='/wiki/clamour' title='clamour'>clamour</a>
<a href='/wiki/conciliate' title='conciliate'>conciliate</a>
<a href='/wiki/conciliatory' title='conciliatory'>conciliatory</a>
<a href='/wiki/council' title='council'>council</a>
<a href='/wiki/declaim' title='declaim'>declaim</a>
<a href='/wiki/declamation' title='declamation'>declamation</a>
<a href='/wiki/declamatory' title='declamatory'>declamatory</a>
<a href='/wiki/deintercalate' title='deintercalate'>deintercalate</a>
<a href='/wiki/exclaim' title='exclaim'>exclaim</a>
<a href='/wiki/exclamation' title='exclamation'>exclamation</a>
<a href='/wiki/exclamative' title='exclamative'>exclamative</a>
<a href='/wiki/exclamatory' title='exclamatory'>exclamatory</a>
<a href='/wiki/haul' title='haul'>haul</a>
<a href='/wiki/intercalary' title='intercalary'>intercalary</a>
<a href='/wiki/intercalate' title='intercalate'>intercalate</a>
<a href='/wiki/proclaim' title='proclaim'>proclaim</a>
<a href='/wiki/proclamation' title='proclamation'>proclamation</a>
<a href='/wiki/reclaim' title='reclaim'>reclaim</a>
<a href='/wiki/reclamation' title='reclamation'>reclamation</a>
Translations
to cry out
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Noun
exclaim (plural exclaims)
- (obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 2,
- 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.
- 1635, John Donne, “His parting form her”:
- Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 2,
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