To have recited from memory
Past tense for to utter or deliver words in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience
“Usually silent and absorbed, it was not his gift to moralize or declaim.”
Past tense for to give a speech or talk on a given subject
“I'll resist the temptation to declaim at length about this, and move on.”
Past tense for to rant or protest strongly about something
“A man may declaim upon State taxes and State debts, while he ought to declaim loudly upon the parent of those taxes and those debts.”
Past tense for to recite or read out loud
“His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.”
Past tense for to state or express something in words (or sounds)
Past tense for to talk in a loud, angry and aggressive way
Past tense for to speak or write about with great hostility
Past tense for to condemn or denounce loudly, forcefully or angrily
Past tense for to criticize or speak out against (someone or something)
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