DECLAMATION

declamation

(noun) vehement oratory

declamation

(noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

declamation (countable and uncountable, plural declamations)

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.

Synonym: haranguing

The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.

A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.

Anagrams

• nematocidal

Source: Wiktionary

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Dec`la*ma"tion, n. Etym: [L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. déclamation. See Declaim.]

1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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