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EJULATION [ej-yoo-LAY-shun] (noun)
A wailing; lamentation
“‘Eleven years of solitary confinement!’ is the ejulation of Mr. Dickens, forgetting the crime for which the man was imprisoned!”
--Joseph Adshead, Prisons and Prisoners (1845) (TWITO, page 44)
Published on December 13, 2020 17:04