ecphoneme en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) An exclamation mark.
1858, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars, fourth edition, Samuel S. and William Wood, page 800, The Ecphoneme, or Note of Exclamation, is used to denote а pause with some strong emotion of admiration, joy, grief, or other feeling; and, as a sign of great wonder, it is sometimes, though not very elegantly, repeated […]
The note of exclamation or ecphoneme is used after a word or phrase to express sudden emotion, and is sometimes repeated for emphasis.
1913, Frank H. Vizetelly, The Preparation of Manuscripts for the Printer, 5th revised edition, Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 51:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ecphonemes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
bracket · stroke · period · question mark · quotation marks · curly brackets · full stop · space · square bracket · hyphen · ellipsis · interrobang · Canada) · dash · interpunct · exclamation mark · brace · colon · guillemet · bracket · quotation marks · slash · semicolon · fraction slash · parentheses (US · eroteme · comma · apostrophe