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/idʒˌækjulˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Ejaculation n.

The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. (Archaic or Technical) "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye."

The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. "In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing."

(Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ejaculation" Quotes from Famous Books

... the door, and then, left to himself, went over to the dark corner where the hammock swung. There he suddenly stopped, with a soft ejaculation. ...

— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd

... from forward and amidships. All at once Archie, who had been staring into the night ahead, started, turned and uttered an ejaculation of dismay, which a gust of wind ...

— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan

... one of the strangers leaped to the ground, flung his reins to the other, and entered the council tent where he was received with looks of surprise, and with the ejaculation from Big Otter of the single ...

— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne

... unclouded. When all was nearly over, he lay murmuring faint prayers for himself, and for the cause in which, he died. "Lord Jesus," he exclaimed in the moment of the last agony, "receive my soul. O Lord, save my country. O Lord, be merciful to—." In that broken ejaculation passed away his noble and ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... "and wherefore alas, Sir Richard? Doth your new spirit of chivalry supply no more vigorous ejaculation when a noble struggle is impending? Or, if ALAS means thou wilt flinch from the conflict, thou mayest leave the Castle, or go join mine enemies, whichever thou ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

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