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   Dec·la·ma·tion

   /ˌdekləˈmāSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. the action or art of declaiming: "Shakespearean declamation"
   • ▪ a rhetorical exercise or set speech: "lines written for a school declamation"
   • ▪ forthright or distinct projection of words set to music: "a soprano soloist with wonderfully clear declamation"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘a set speech’): from Latin declamatio(n-), from the verb declamare (see declaim).

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