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
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
They had the dining-room to themselves, except for occasional vague and interjectional appearances of Mary Cody in the door, to see "if they wanted anything."
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
Professor Sayce, in his late work, Introduction to the Science of Language, London, 1880, gives the origin of language in gestures, in onomatopœia, and to a limited extent in interjectional cries.
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
