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Declaim meaning
To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech. | To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. | To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
Example sentences (7)
After being stabbed, Scarpia wandered off leaving Tosca to declaim her immortal “Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma” to herself.
We have become a caustic people, more prone to declaim than listen, corrosive in our humor and ever ready to battle.
A previous signature tune of the station was a five note motif, composed by David Arnold and which comprises a variety of voices declaim "This is the BBC in..
He subsequently went to Rome Apuleius, Florida, 17.4 to study Latin rhetoric and, most likely, to declaim in the law courts for a time before returning to his native North Africa.
In its earliest form, "grammar school" referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets (including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others).
The only way to make one's work known was to declaim it in the several "literary" cafes which then sprang up, or – anticipating samizdat – to circulate it in manuscript.
The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetorical—written for actors to declaim rather than speak.