declamation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun vehement oratory
  2. noun recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

Etymology

From French déclamation, from Latin dēclāmātiō, dēclāmātiōnem, from dēclāmō, dēclāmāre; see declaim.

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