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declamatory, a. (n.)|dɪˈklæmətərɪ|
[ad. L. dēclāmātōri-us, f. dēclāmātōr-em: see prec. and -ory.]
Of or pertaining to rhetorical declaiming; of the nature of, or characterized by, declamation.
1581Mulcaster Positions x. (1887) 57 To pronounce..orations and other declamatory argumentes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii, To leaue all declamatory speeches in praise of divine Musick. a1639Wotton (J.), This..became a declamatory theme amongst the religious men of that age. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 5 That peculiar species of Music, which may be called declamatory. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 393 note, This pretended charter is very suspicious; its style is too declamatory. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 75 It is in the true declamatory passages that Pope is at his best.
†b. Characterized by declamation against something; denunciatory. Obs.
1589Nashe Greene's Menaphon Ded. 10 Least in this declamatorie vaine, I should condemne all and commend none.
†B. n. A declamatory speech. Obs.
1688L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times iii. 12 Then's the Time for Declamatoryes, and Exaggerations.
Hence deˈclamatoriness, the quality of being declamatory.
1844Foreign Q. Rev. XXXIII. 351 The general characteristics of Linguet's oratory are declamatoriness and paradox.
Add: deˈclamatorily adv., in a declamatory manner; in the form of a declamation.
1898G. B. Shaw You never can Tell ii. 241 Philip:..My name is—Dolly: (completing his sentence for him declamatorily) ‘Norval. On the Grampian hills’. 1971P. Scott Towers of Silence iii. iii. 192 A white horse with a dim uniformed figure declamatorily astride. |