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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
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
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Source: Wiktionary
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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