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declamation

[ dek-luh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or art of declaiming.
  2. exercise in oratory or elocution, as in the recitation of a classic speech.
  3. speech or writing for oratorical effect.
  4. Music. the proper enunciation of the words, as in recitative.


declamation

/ ˌdɛkləˈmeɪʃən /

noun

  1. a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
  2. a speech, verse, etc, that is or can be spoken
  3. the act or art of declaiming
  4. music the artistry or technique involved in singing recitative passages
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of declamation1

1350–1400; < Latin dēclāmātiōn- (stem of dēclāmātiō ), equivalent to dēclāmāt ( us ) (past participle of dēclāmāre to declaim; -ate 1 ) + -iōn- -ion
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Example Sentences

He stretched language and banality to operatic extremes, exalting discarded bits of life as if they were cosmic, in stylized declamation that is every bit as musical as Mozart.

As this druid high priestess, caught in a forbidden love triangle with a Roman soldier and a fellow priestess, Yoncheva can be forceful in declamation — the singing that’s more like speechifying.

At Weill, it emerged with earth-rumbling intensity, as Tines wrapped his luscious voice around its punishing declamations with athletic fervor.

The English songwriter and producer Sipho Ndhlovu revels in drama and desperation, with a voice that regularly leaps between grainy declamation and a tearful falsetto.

Nuance is not much favored in this age of declamation, of all or nothing, of presumption of guilt, of refusal to compromise.

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