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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an exclamatory rhetorical device;
- Example: "O tempore! O mores"
[syn: ecphonesis, exclamation]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ecphonesis \Ec`pho*ne"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See
   Ecphonema.] (Rhet.)
   An animated or passionate exclamation.
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         The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.
                                                  --Gibbs.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ecphonesis
    n 1: an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores"
         [syn: ecphonesis, exclamation]