ecphonesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐκφώνησις (ekphṓnēsis, “pronunciation, exclamation”).

Noun

ecphonesis (usually uncountable, plural ecphoneses)

Examples (rhetoric)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1599): Oh wretched state! Oh bosome, blacke as death!

1. (rhetoric) Exclamation.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 33:

     By Ecphonesis, straight the mind is raised
     When by a sudden flow of passion seized.]

2. (Greek Orthodox Christianity) The part of the service spoken in an audible tone.

Synonyms

• interjection