rare. ‘Now disused’ (J.). [f. prec. vb.] Exclamation, outcry.
c. 1489. Caxton, Blanchardyn, 213. With these or the like exclaimes.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 150/1. He thought by waie of exclames to aggrauat his owne case.
1633. Costlie Whore, I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Intending by exclaimes to raise the Court.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster Fair, V. ii. It needed not that with a third exclaim King James’s trumpeter aloud should cry.
1840. Browning, Sordello, III. 344. Thus I bring Sordello to the rapturous Exclaim at the crowd’s cry.
