Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CLA-MA'TION, n.

1. Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as, exclamations against abuses in government.
2. Vehement vociferation. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak.
3. Emphatical utterance; a vehement extension or elevation of voice; ecphonesis; as, O dismal night!
4. A note by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked: thus!
5. In grammar, a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing some passion, as wonder, fear or grief.