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   declamation

   /ˌdɛkləˈmeɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action or art of declaiming: "Shakespearean declamation"
   • ▪ a rhetorical exercise or set speech: "lines written for a school declamation"

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

   Scrabble Points: 16

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