Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ecphonesis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ecphonesis \Ec`pho*ne"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See
{Ecphonema}.] (Rhet.)
An animated or passionate exclamation.
The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.
--Gibbs.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ecphonesis
n : an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn:
{exclamation}]
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