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Present participle 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.”
Present participle 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.”
Present participle 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.”
Present participle for to recite or read out loud
“His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.”
Present participle for to state or express something in words (or sounds)
Present participle for to talk in a loud, angry and aggressive way
Present participle for to condemn or denounce loudly, forcefully or angrily
Present participle for to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant
Present participle for to criticize or speak out against (someone or something)
The action of repeating something aloud from memory
“Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.”
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