Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an exclamatory manner.
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- adverb In an
exclamatory way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I love you as much as I possibly can! he said, exclamatorily.
Sanguine Pizza 2009
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And the Internet is a never-ending font of wisdom-of-the-ageless, with bloggers on websites like ehow. com exclamatorily focusing on how to "look ten years younger in ten minutes."
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She was to see him, grey ascendant upon the raven of his hair, shrinking down in his seat, wilting as one slowly collapsing after a stunning blow, and at her news (and hers the guilt of it) to hear his voice go, not exclamatorily, but in a thick mutter, as one dazed, bewildered, in
This Freedom 1925
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His voice went, not exclamatorily, but in a thick mutter, as one agrope, in sudden darkness, befogged, betrayed.
This Freedom 1925
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And the Internet is a never-ending font of wisdom-of-the-ageless, with bloggers on websites like ehow. com exclamatorily focusing on how to "look ten years younger in ten minutes."
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Playfully and exclamatorily turning "difficult" from adjectival description into a substantive that is then itself made to signify a quality or state of being, Guest uses both sound values and the suspended pause of the page’s blank space to make "difficult!" virtually chime with "entangle it."
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003
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-- the call made upon an incorrect throw which must therefore be repeated -- means ` futile 'adjectivally, ` Deal's off!' exclamatorily.
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