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n. A recitation delivered as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution.

n. Vehement oratory.

n. A speech marked by strong feeling; a tirade.

n. 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.

n. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

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

n. 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.

n. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.

n. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.

n. The act or art of declaiming or making rhetorical harangues in public; especially, the delivery of a speech or an exercise in oratory or elocution, as by a student of a college, etc.: as, a public declamation; the art of declamation.

n. Specifically In vocal music, the proper rhetorical enunciation of the words, especially in recitative and in dramatic music.

n. A public harangue or set speech; an oration.

n. Pompous, high-sounding verbiage in speech or writing; stilted oratory.

n. A specially close or successful union of tones with words, as in a song or aria.

n. A work in which the text is read or spoken while a musical accompaniment or comment is played. Also called melodrama. See melodrama, 2.

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

n. vehement oratory

"A flush overspread the face of De Warenne at this apostrophe; and forcing a smile, "This strict notion of right," said he, "is very well in declamation, but how would it crop the wings of conquerors, and shorten the warrior's arm, did they measure by this rule!""

recital    recitation    reading   

declamatory    declaim   

haranguing   

invective    rhetoric    panegyric    oratory    protestation    diction    harangue    denunciation    eloquence    elocution