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DECLAMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vehement oratory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("declamation" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "declamation"):
broadside; philippic; tirade (a speech of violent denunciation)
harangue; rant; ranting (a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion)
raving (declaiming wildly)
Derivation:
declaim (speak against in an impassioned manner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("declamation" is a kind of...):
reading; recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)
Derivation:
declaim (recite in elocution)
