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2 definitions found 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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