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Webster 1913 Edition
Declamation
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 studentsThe 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
Webster 1828 Edition
Declamation
DECLAMA'TION
, n.Definition 2024
declamation
declamation
See also: déclamation
English
Noun
declamation (plural declamations)
- 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.
- A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
- Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
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External links
- declamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- declamation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- declamation at OneLook Dictionary Search