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declamatory Definition


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declamatory
adj
    1. Said of speech: impassioned; rhetorical.
      Thesaurus: pompous, bombastic, verbose, discursive, rhetorical, overblown, windy, grandiose, grandiloquent, theatrical, stagy, high-flown, turgid, fustian.
Derivative: declamatorily
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Latin declamare, declamatum to declaim.



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