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      "From Middle French exclamer, from Latin excl\u0101m\u014d, excl\u0101m\u0101re (\u201ccall out\u201d), from ex- + cl\u0101m\u014d (\u201cto call\u201d)."
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            "mean": "(intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.\n1591 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe First Part of Henry the Sixt\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,Or to exclaim on fortune\u2019s fickleness.\n1749,  Henry Fielding,  chapter 9, in  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, book 1, page 33:Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.\n1815 December (indicated as 1816),  ,  Emma:\u00a0, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II or III), London:     for John Murray, \u2192OCLC:This wretched note was the finale of Emma\u2019s breakfast. When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.\n1925,  Virginia Woolf,  Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1985, page 114:  he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight  \n2011,  Alan Hollinghurst,  The Stranger\u2019s Child\u200e, 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."
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            "mean": "(transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.\n1603,  Michael Drayton,  \u201cAlice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince\u201d, in  The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second\u200e, London: N. Ling, page 31:Must she be forc\u2019d, t\u2019exclaime th\u2019iniurious wrong?Offred by him, whom she hath lou\u2019d so long?Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare,Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.\n1748,  ,  chapter 40, in  The Adventures of Roderick Random.\u00a0, 2nd edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London:    J. Osborn\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 28:  her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, \u201cIn the name of heaven! Who art thou?\u201d\u2014\n1838 March \u2013 1839 October,  Charles Dickens,  chapter 12, in  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall,\u00a0, published 1839, \u2192OCLC: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.\n1907 August,  Robert W Chambers,  chapter IX, in  The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, \u2192OCLC:\u201cHeavens!\u201d exclaimed Nina, \u201cthe blue-stocking and the fogy!\u2014and yours are pale blue, Eileen!\u2014you\u2019re about as self-conscious as Drina\u2014slumping there with your hair tumbling \u00e0 la M\u00e9rode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.\u00a0\u201d\n2017,  Andr\u00e9 Aciman,  \u201cManfred\u201d, in  Enigma Variations\u200e, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 135:You never pump your arm when you score, you never exclaim anything, you don\u2019t even smile when you fire a perfect backhand straight down the line."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.\n1595 December 9 (first known performance),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe life and death of King Richard the Second\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :Foul devil, for God\u2019s sake, hence, and trouble us not;For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,Fill\u2019d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.\n1635,  John Donne,  His parting form her:Oh fortune, thou\u2019rt not worth my least exclame ."
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