Associations to the word «Declamation»

Wiktionary

DECLAMATION, noun. 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.
DECLAMATION, noun. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
DECLAMATION, noun. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

Dictionary definition

DECLAMATION, noun. Vehement oratory.
DECLAMATION, noun. Recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley