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declamation

Noun

∙ 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.

BABYLON ENGLISH
declamation n.
formal declaration; formal speech

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
declamation
declamation
\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.
2. a set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

WORDNET 2.0
declamation
Noun
1. vehement oratory
(hypernym) oratory
(hyponym) tirade, philippic, broadside
(derivation) declaim, inveigh
2. recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
(hypernym) recitation
(derivation) declaim, recite

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Declamation
Declamation or declamatio (Latin for "declaration") was a genre of ancient rhetoric and a mainstay of the Roman higher education system. It was separated into two component subgenres, the controversia, speeches of defense or prosecution in fictitious court cases, and the suasoria, in which the speaker advised a historical or legendary figure as to a course of action. Roman declamations survive in four corpora: the compilations of Seneca the Elder and Calpurnius Flaccus, as well as two sets of controversiae, the Major Declamations and Minor Declamations spuriously attributed to Quintilian.
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

declamation

Noun

∙ 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.

BABYLON ENGLISH
declamation n.
formal declaration; formal speech

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
declamation
declamation
\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.
2. a set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

WORDNET 2.0
declamation
Noun
1. vehement oratory
(hypernym) oratory
(hyponym) tirade, philippic, broadside
(derivation) declaim, inveigh
2. recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
(hypernym) recitation
(derivation) declaim, recite

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Declamation
Declamation or declamatio (Latin for "declaration") was a genre of ancient rhetoric and a mainstay of the Roman higher education system. It was separated into two component subgenres, the controversia, speeches of defense or prosecution in fictitious court cases, and the suasoria, in which the speaker advised a historical or legendary figure as to a course of action. Roman declamations survive in four corpora: the compilations of Seneca the Elder and Calpurnius Flaccus, as well as two sets of controversiae, the Major Declamations and Minor Declamations spuriously attributed to Quintilian.
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