Definition of Declemation
Dec`la*ma"tion (?), n. [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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- 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.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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