Declamation1. (n.) The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges, as, the practice declamation by students; the act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public.
2. (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
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