DECLAMATION
\dɪklɐmˈe͡ɪʃən], \dɪklɐmˈeɪʃən], \d_ɪ_k_l_ɐ_m_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DECLAMATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
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Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
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Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act or art of declaiming, according to rules, so as accurately to express the sentiment; a harangue; a display of empty impassioned rhetorical oratory.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A set or prepared speech; a harangue; in schools and colleges, a speech prepared and uttered by a student; a noisy address without solid sense or argument.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Declamatio, from de, and clamare, clamatum, 'to cry out.' The art of depicting the sentiments by inflections of the voice, accompanied with gestures, which render the meaning of the speaker more evident, and infuse into the minds of the auditors the emotions with which he is impressed. Declamation may become the cause of disease: the modification, produced in the pulmonary circulation, -accompanied by the great excitement, sometimes experienced, -is the cause of many morbid affections; particularly of pneumonia, haemoptysis, and apoplexy. In moderation, it gives a healthy excitement to the frame.
By Robley Dunglison
