slovo | definícia |
declamation (mass) | declamation
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declamation (encz) | declamation,deklamace n: Zdeněk Brož |
declamation (encz) | declamation,přednes n: Zdeněk Brož |
Declamation (gcide) | Declamation \Dec`la*ma"tion\, n. [L. declamatio, from declamare:
cf. F. d['e]clamation. See Declaim.]
1. 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.
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The public listened with little emotion, but with
much civility, to five acts of monotonous
declamation. --Macaulay.
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2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
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3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than
sense; as, mere declamation.
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declamation (wn) | declamation
n 1: vehement oratory
2: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and
intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
declamation (mass) | declamation
- prednes |
declamation (encz) | declamation,deklamace n: Zdeněk Broždeclamation,přednes n: Zdeněk Brož |
declamation (wn) | declamation
n 1: vehement oratory
2: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and
intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric |
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