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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Declamation \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
declamation
n : vehement oratory
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