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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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... that partook of the nature of prodigy. I am well aware there is a Providence for drunken men, that holds the reins for them and presides over their troubles; doubtless he had his work cut out for him with this particular gigful! Fenn rescued his toes with an ejaculation from under the departing wheels, and turned at once with uncertain steps and devious lantern to the far end of the court. There, through the open doors of a coach-house, the shock-headed lad was ...

— St Ives • Robert Louis Stevenson

... he had on the subject, no matter with whom, ended in some such ejaculation, till Heathcote got quite used to it, and even ceased ...

— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... The ejaculation she made feeling the necessity of saying something to soothe the tailor's pride; but her heart was fixed upon the fruition of that for which she had spent so many years in struggling. Was it to come to her at last? ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

... coming with her mother out of the marble church at Milan, she perceived that a gentleman who had just passed her on his way into the cathedral and whose face she had not noticed, had quickly raised his hat, with a suppressed ejaculation. She involuntarily glanced back; the gentleman had paused, again uncovering, and Captain Jay stood saluting her in the Italian sunshine. "Oh, good-morning!" she said, and walked on, pursuing her course; her mother was a little ...

— The Chaperon • Henry James

... most intensely dramatic incidents, Phil failed to hear a hand-clap or an ejaculation of admiration or pleasure from the sphinx-faced yellow men about him. Yet they seemed ...

— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson

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