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DECLAMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does declamation mean? 

DECLAMATION (noun)
  The noun DECLAMATION has 2 senses:

1. vehement oratoryplay

2. recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoricplay

  Familiarity information: DECLAMATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DECLAMATION (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)


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