exclaim

Etymology

From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
   […] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […] 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1985, page 114
   […] at the front door below a few guests were leaving, and the bright rectangle widened and narrowed as they slipped out into the night, laughing and exclaiming about the weather. 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 285
2. (transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.
   Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare. 1603, Michael Drayton, “Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince”, in The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second, London: N. Ling, page 31
   You never pump your arm when you score, you never exclaim anything, you don’t even smile when you fire a perfect backhand straight down the line. 2017, André Aciman, “Manfred”, in Enigma Variations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 135

noun

1. (obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
   Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame …. 1635, John Donne, His parting form her