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EJACULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ejaculation" is a kind of...):
exclaiming; exclamation (an abrupt excited utterance)
Derivation:
ejaculate (utter impulsively)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The discharge of semen in males
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("ejaculation" is a kind of...):
discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ejaculation"):
nocturnal emission (ejaculation during sleep (usually during a dream))
premature ejaculation (ejaculation during the early stages of sexual excitement or soon after the insertion of the penis into the vagina)
Derivation:
ejaculate (eject semen)
Context examples:
“Thank Gawd she’s not comin’ all of a bunch, Mr. Van Weyden,” was the Cockney’s fervent ejaculation.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a few hours must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and the ecstasy of such a reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a few fervent ejaculations of gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may be conceived.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many an half-hour in Mrs. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the bedroom he made a rapid cast around and ended by throwing open the window, which appeared to give him some fresh cause for excitement, for he leaned out of it with loud ejaculations of interest and delight.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He glanced at it, and then, with an ejaculation of disgust, threw it on the floor.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This category includes premature, delayed, retrograde, and painful ejaculation.
(Ejaculation Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Oh, go-roo! (it is really impossible to express how he twisted this ejaculation out of himself, as he peeped round the door-post at me, showing nothing but his crafty old head); will you go for fourpence?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
