exclaim

verb

1. (intransitive)To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

   “I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.”

   “Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.”

   “This wretched note was the finale of Emma’s breakfast. When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.”

   “[…] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […]”

   “[…] at the front door below a few guests were leaving, and the bright rectangle widened and narrowed as they slipped out into the night, laughing and exclaiming about the weather.”

2. (transitive)To say suddenly and with strong emotion.

   “Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.”

   “[…] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—”

   “Without returning any direct reply, Miss Squeers, all at once, fell into a paroxysm of spiteful tears, and exclaimed that she was a wretched, neglected, miserable castaway.”

   ““Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]””

   “You never pump your arm when you score, you never exclaim anything, you don’t even smile when you fire a perfect backhand straight down the line.”

noun

1. (obsolete)Exclamation; outcry, clamor.

   “Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not; For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.”

   “Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].”