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declamatory |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf F. d['e]clamatoire.] 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as a declamatory theme. 2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as a declamatory way or style. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: declamatory adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
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