Noah Webster
Exclamation
EXCLAMA'TION, noun Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as exclamations against abuses in government.
1. Vehement vociferation.
Thus will I drown your exclamations.
2. Emphatical utterance; a vehement extension or elevation of voice; ecphonesis; as, O dismal night!
3. A note by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked: thus!
4. In grammar, a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing some passion, as wonder, fear or grief.