ecphonesis

[ ek-fuh-nee-sis ]

nounRhetoric.
  1. the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”

Origin of ecphonesis

1
1580–90; <Greek ekphṓnēsis, equivalent to ekphonē-, variant stem of ekphōneîn to cry out (see ec-, -phone) + -sis-sis

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