interjection
noun
the act of interjecting.
interjectional
-
a word derived from
interjection.
Example Sentences
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Burges Johnson is dissatisfied with American profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction.
From Time Magazine Archive
An excellent answer to the interjectional theory has been given by Horne Tooke.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
When they did at length break silence, it was in short interjectional remarks, as they resumed the oars.
From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
To pronounce the last word correctly, the central ”ë” must be run into a long-drawn, not an interjectional, sound.
From The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
At last, however, the party assembled at the Montanvert, where, amid interjectional accounts of the various incidents and adventures of the forenoon, strength was recruited for the subsequent operations of the day.
From Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
