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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Declamation \Dec'la*ma"tion\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
declamation
noun
1: vehement oratory
2: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
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