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declaimer|dɪˈkleɪmə(r)| [f. declaim + -er1.] One who declaims; one who speaks with rhetorical expression, or as an exercise in elocution; one who harangues, or speaks with impassioned force.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 401 Iulius Gallo, a noble declamer. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Declamateur, a Declaimer, a mooter. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. iv. ii. (R.), A certaine declaimor against sciences. 1712Steele Spect. No. 521 ⁋4 The Declaimers in Coffee-houses. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 202 ⁋2 The pompous periods of declaimers, whose purpose is only to amuse with fallacies. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. iii. §2 Such..is the labour of the musical performer, the actor, the public declaimer or reciter. |