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English
Etymology
Equivalent to declaim + -atory.
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Adjective
declamatory (comparative more declamatory, superlative most declamatory)
- Having the quality of a declamation.
- Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.
1908, R. Forsythe, “Our Hippopotamus Hunt”, in The Wide World Magazine, volume XX, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 400:Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.
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