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Definition of Declamations
1. declamation [n] - See also: declamation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declamations
Literary usage of Declamations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1892)
"Let therefore the subjects themselves, which shall be imagined, be as like as
possible to truth; and let declamations to the utmost extent that is ..."
2. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1857)
"f It was at this time that Luther preached those discourses on the Ten Commandments
that have come down to us under the title of Popular Declamations. ..."
3. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Declamations in Greek on Decia x Ho ns : abstract questions (Secret?, ... Lastly,
under the Empire, we have declamations on poetical or fancy themes. ..."
4. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... declamations are frequently given by Seneca the Elder, see p. ... short ones)
of his declamations are given by SEN. suas. and contr. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The corruption of taste and language is strongly marked in the vehement declamations
of the Latin bishops, but the compositions of Gregory and Chrysostom ..."
6. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"The declamations of antiquity had an influence on its prose style—and consequently
an effect on its critical opinions of ..."