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Declamatory

Declamatory Meaning & Definition
Declamatory Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Declamatory?

[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Declamatory: bombastic | large | orotund | rhetorical | tumid | turgid

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Declamatory In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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