EXCLAIMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exclaiming mean? 

• EXCLAIMING (noun)
  The noun EXCLAIMING has 1 sense:

1. an abrupt excited utterance

  Familiarity information: EXCLAIMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCLAIMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abrupt excited utterance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exclaiming; exclamation

Context example:

there was much exclaiming over it

Hypernyms ("exclaiming" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exclaiming"):

deuce; devil; dickens (a word used in exclamations of confusion)

ejaculation; interjection (an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion)

expostulation (an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof)

Derivation:

exclaim (utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy)

 Context examples 

But she still repeated the same words, continually exclaiming, “Oh, the river!” over and over again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before she could speak, Annie had the cover off, and all were exclaiming at the lovely roses, heath, and fern within.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Admiral wound it up summarily by exclaiming—Ay, a very bad business indeed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As he pulled and tugged and wrenched, he kept exclaiming with every expulsion of breath, "Beasts!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She met Mr. Weston on his entrance, with a smiling countenance, exclaiming, A very pretty trick you have been playing me, upon my word!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, “Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Adele came running to meet us in the hall, exclaiming—"Mesdames, vous etes servies!" adding, "J'ai bien faim, moi!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Before half this was said, Fanny was returned to her seat at the table, and had taken up her work again; and Julia, who was in high good-humour, from the pleasures of the day, did her the justice of exclaiming, I must say, ma'am, that Fanny is as little upon the sofa as anybody in the house.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Every thing was silent; this could not be borne many seconds; she opened the door, advanced a few steps towards the stairs, and after listening half a minute, returned into the room in all the agitation which a conviction of having heard him would naturally produce; in the ecstasy of her feelings at that instant she could not help exclaiming, Oh, Elinor, it is Willoughby, indeed it is! and seemed almost ready to throw herself into his arms, when Colonel Brandon appeared.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will, was a matter which they were at least as far from divining as Catherine herself; but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man, grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; though Sarah indeed still indulged in the sweets of incomprehensibility, exclaiming and conjecturing with youthful ardour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)