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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