ejulation

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  1. An outcry; a wailing; a loud cry expressive of grief or pain; mourning; lamentation. No ejulation Tolled her knell; no dying agony Frown'd in her death. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xviii. 53. Instead of hymns and praises, he breaks out into ejulations and effeminate wailings. Government of the Tongue.

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  1. from Latin ejulatio(n-), from ejulare, also deponent hejulari, wail, lament, from heu, hei, ei, an exclamation of grief or fear.
 

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