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单词 declamation
释义 declamation|dɛkləˈmeɪʃən|
[ad. L. dēclāmātiōn-em, n. of action from dēclāmāre to declaim, or ad. F. déclamation (15th c. in Hatzf.).]
1. The action or art of declaiming; the repeating or uttering of a speech, etc. with studied intonation and gesture.
1552Huloet, Declamation often heard, and tedious to the hearers, crambe repetita.1597Morley Introd. Mus. 86 Your plainsong is as it were your theme, and your descant as it were your declamation.1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xxiv. 680 He publicly professed the arts of rhetoric and declamation.1834Macaulay Pitt 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.
attrib.1806Byron Thoughts College Exam. 25 The declamation prize.
b. Music. The proper rhetorical rendering of words set to music.
1876in Stainer & Barrett.
2. A public speech or address of rhetorical character; a set speech in rhetorical elocution.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel (R.), Olde Quintillian with his declamations; Theocritus with his Bucolicall relacions.1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 11 Theams more fit for schollars declamations.1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 55 The Orations and declamations..of these Sophisters, who make shew of their eloquence.1782J. Warton Ess. Pope II. xiii. 381 Able to compose Essays, Declamations, and Verses, in Greek, in Latin, and in English.1830Drury 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.
1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 42 The more accurately the Scriptures describe sinnes, the more absolutely they forbid them: where wickednesse is the subject, all speech is declamation.1750Johnson Rambler No. 172 ⁋3 [Not so universal] as some have asserted in the..heat of declamation.1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. i. §1 But enough of metaphor and declamation.a1794Gibbon Autobiog. 90, I was conscious myself that my style, above prose and below poetry, degenerated into a verbose and turgid declamation.1874Morley Compromise (1886) 53 Exacerbated declamation in favor 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.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. viii. (1611) 98 The cause why such declamations preuaill so greatly, is, for that men suffer themselues to be deluded.1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 23 But this was but one of Cæsars rodamantadoes, or thundring declamations.1688S. Penton Guardians Instr. 47 The constant Declamations against us of those intruding members.a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 216 It was only an insolent declamation..full of fury and indecent invectives.1856Emerson Eng. Traits, First Visit Wks. (Bohn) II. 4 On this, he [Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism.
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