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DECLAMATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does declamatory mean?
• DECLAMATORY (adjective)
The adjective DECLAMATORY has 1 sense:
1. ostentatiously lofty in style
Familiarity information: DECLAMATORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ostentatiously lofty in style
Synonyms:
bombastic; declamatory; large; orotund; tumid; turgid
Context example:
tumid political prose
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
Context examples
He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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