Ex`cla*ma"tion (?), n. [L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation.]

1.

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.

Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker.

Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak.

A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

2. Rhet.

A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.

3. Print.

A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also [exclamation point].

© [Webster 1913].