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
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