DECLAMATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Vehement oratory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("declamation" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "declamation"):

broadside; philippic; tirade (a speech of violent denunciation)

harangue; rant; ranting (a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion)

raving (declaiming wildly)

Derivation:

declaim (speak against in an impassioned manner)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("declamation" is a kind of...):

reading; recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

Derivation:

declaim (recite in elocution)