Declamation definition

dĕklə-māshən
declamations
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A speech, poem, etc. that is or can be declaimed.
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A recitation delivered as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution.
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The definition of a declamation means a speech with feeling, or refers to the act of reciting a speech or rhetoric.

A political speech that is a great piece of rhetoric and that inspires others is an example of a declamation.

When you deliver a political speech intended to rally supporters and intimidate opponents, this is an example of declamation.

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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.
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Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
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Vehement oratory.
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A speech marked by strong feeling; a tirade.
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A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
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The act or art of declaiming.
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Noun

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declamation
Plural:
declamations

Origin of declamation

  • Middle English declamacioun from Latin dēclāmātiō dēclāmātiōn- from dēclāmātus past participle of dēclāmāre to declaim declaim

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French déclamation, from Latin dēclāmātiō, dēclāmātiōnem, from dēclāmō, dēclāmāre; see declaim

    From Wiktionary

Declamation Sentence Examples

  • For cool and sustained declamation he stood unrivalled in parliament, and his readiness in debate was universally acknowledged.

  • Cobden did the reasoning, Bright supplied the declamation, but like Demosthenes he mingled argument with appeal.

  • Several years after the death of Socrates the sophist Polycrates composed a declamation against him, to which Lysias replied.

  • This didactic view of history was a prevalent one in antiquity, and it was confirmed no doubt by those rhetorical studies which in Rome as in Greece formed the chief part of education, and which taught men to look on history as little more than a storehouse of illustrations and themes for declamation.

  • The splendid declamation of Camille, and the excellent part of the elder Horace, do not altogether atone for these defects.

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