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Ecphonesis   Listen
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Ecphonesis  n.  (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation. "The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Ecphonesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... FIGURE XI.—ECPHONESIS. "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


Words linked to "Ecphonesis" :   rhetorical device, exclamation


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