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verb
- 1. utter or deliver words in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience: "she declaimed her views" Similar
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DECLAIM definition: 1. to express something with strong feeling, especially in a loud voice or with forceful language…. Learn more.
The meaning of DECLAIM is to speak rhetorically; specifically : to recite something as an exercise in elocution. How to use declaim in a sentence. When Should You Use declaim?
Use the verb declaim when someone is speaking very passionately against something, like when you declaim against having to be home by 8 p.m. Declaim can also describe reciting words aloud for practice.
Declaim definition: to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech. See examples of DECLAIM used in a sentence.
to make (a speech, statement, etc) loudly and in a rhetorical manner. 2. to speak lines from (a play, poem, etc) with studied eloquence; recite. 3. (intransitive; foll by against) to protest (against) loudly and publicly. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms.
1. (Rhetoric) to make (a speech, statement, etc) loudly and in a rhetorical manner. 2. (Rhetoric) to speak lines from (a play, poem, etc) with studied eloquence; recite. 3. (foll by: against) to protest (against) loudly and publicly. [C14: from Latin dēclāmāre, from clāmāre to call out] deˈclaimer, deˈclaimant n.
DECLAIM meaning: 1. to express something with strong feeling, especially in a loud voice or with forceful language…. Learn more.
Definition of declaim verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
declaim meaning, definition, what is declaim: to speak loudly, sometimes with actions,...: Learn more.
de•claim (di klām′ ), v.i. Rhetoric to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building. Rhetoric to inveigh (usually fol. by against): He declaimed against the high rents in slums.
