Thesaurus: declamation

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1. n. 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.
2. n. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. n. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
4. n. vehement oratory
5. n. recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
6. 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.
7. n:100 n. vehement oratory n. recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric