Definitions for: Declamation

[n] vehement oratory
[n] recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

Webster (1913) Definition: Dec`la*ma"tion, n. [L. declamatio, from declamare:
cf. F. d['e]clamation. 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. --Macaulay.

2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than
sense; as, mere declamation.

See Also: broadside, harangue, oratory, philippic, rant, ranting, raving, recitation, tirade

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