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Noun: declamation  `dek-lu'mey-shun
  1. Vehement oratory
     
  2. Recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

Derived forms: declamations

See also: declaim

Type of: oratory, reading, recital, recitation

Encyclopedia: Declamation

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