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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an exclamatory rhetorical device;
- Example: "O tempore! O mores"
[syn: ecphonesis, exclamation]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ecphonesis \Ec`pho*ne"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Ecphonema.] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation. [1913 Webster] The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. --Gibbs. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ecphonesis n 1: an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn: ecphonesis, exclamation]