单词 | declamation |
释义 | declamationn. 1. a. The action or art of declaiming; the repeating or uttering of a speech, etc. with studied intonation and gesture. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] declamation1552 public speaking1587 oratory1594 orationing1633 speeching1664 rostrum1690 speech-making1718 speechifying1723 speakinga1763 speechification1825 platforming1892 peroratory1903 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Declamation often heard, and tedious to the hearers, crambe repetita. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 86 Your plainsong is as it were your theme, and your descant as it were your declamation. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xxiv. 680 He publicly professed the arts of rhetoric and declamation. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1854) I. 294 That which gave most effect to his declamation was the air of sincerity, of vehement feeling, or moral elevation, which belonged to all that he said. b. Music. The proper rhetorical rendering of words set to music. ΚΠ 1876 in J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 2. A public speech or address of rhetorical character; a set speech in rhetorical elocution. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech speakingc1275 cry1303 orisona1382 sermonc1385 exhortationc1450 oration?1504 prepositiona1513 declamation1523 concion1541 speak1567 set speech1573 speech1583 hortative1612 allocution1615 public addressa1639 address1643 presentation1714 speechification1809 speechment1826 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell (R.) Olde Quintillian with his declamations; Theocritus with his Bucolicall relacions. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 11 Theams more fit for schollars declamations. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 55 The Orations and declamations..of these Sophisters, who make shew of their eloquence. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xiii. 450 Able to compose Essays, Declamations, and Verses, in Greek, in Latin, and in English. 1830 Drury in Moore Life Byron (1866) 20/1 He suddenly diverged from the written composition..I questioned him, why he had altered his declamation? 3. Declaiming or speaking in an impassioned oratorical manner; fervid denunciation with appeals to the audience. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > denunciation > [noun] proclamation1561 declamation1614 pillory1770 denunciation1842 declaim1922 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket ii. 42 The more accurately the Scriptures describe sinnes, the more absolutely they forbid them: where wickednesse is the subiect, all speech is declamation. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 172. ⁋3 [Not so universal] as some have asserted in the..heat of declamation. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. i. §1 But enough of metaphor and declamation. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 134 I was conscious myself that my style, above prose and below poetry, degenerated into a verbose and turgid declamation. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 42 Exacerbated declamation in favour of ancient dogma against modern science. 4. A speech of a rhetorical kind expressing strong feeling and addressed to the passions of the hearers; a declamatory speech, a harangue. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > a tirade, harangue, or rant haranguea1450 arangc1475 declamation1593 rant1652 declamatory1688 splutter1688 tirade1801 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 141 The cause why such declamations preuaile so greatly, is, for that men suffer themselues in two respects to be deluded. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 23 But this was but one of Cæsars rodamantadoes, or thundring declamations. 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 47 The constant Declamations against us of those intruding members. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 556 It was only an insolent declamation..full of fury and indecent invectives. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits i. 16 On this, he [sc. Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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