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  • verb Obsolete form of exclaim.
  • noun Obsolete form of exclaim.

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Examples

  • The final _l_ in _still_ and _till_ is ignominiously blotted out; _exclaim_ is written _exclame_; a _d_ is put over the obliterated _a_ in _steady_; _t_ is substituted _t_ is substituted for the second _s_ in _confessed_ and kindred words;

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • En entrant dans la salle il s'est exclame: "Il _faut_ que je le fasse: il le _faut_ ..."

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • La final, vizibil incantati de primirea de care au avut parte, membrii trupei au impartit pene de chitara si bete de toba, nu inainte ca solistul sa exclame:

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  • Now cryeth she that sellythe her selffe for fylthye lukre & saythe, swete lady send me some costomers, & if I denye it, they exclame ayenst me & say, thou arte not the mother of marcy.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • I haue heard that king _Henry_ th'eight her Maiesties father, though otherwise the most gentle and affable Prince of the world, could not abide to haue any man stare in his face or to fix his eye too steedily vpon him when he talked with them: nor for a common suter to exclame or cry out for iustice, for that is offensiue and as it were a secret impeachement of his wrong doing, as happened once to a Knight in this Realme of great worship speaking to the king.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • I haue heard that king Henryth'eight her Maiesties father, though otherwise the most gentle and affable Prince of the world, could not abide to haue any man stare in his face or to fix his eye too steedily vpon him when he talked with them: nor for a common suter to exclame or cry out for iustice, for that is offensiue and as it were a secret impeachement of his wrong doing, as happened once to a Knight in this Realme of great worship speaking to the king.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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