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Definition of Declamatory
1. Adjective. Ostentatiously lofty in style. "Tumid political prose"
Similar to: Rhetorical
Derivative terms: Bombast, Largeness, Turgidity, Turgidness
Definition of Declamatory
1. a. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
Definition of Declamatory
1. Adjective. having the quality of a declamation. ¹
2. Adjective. pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Declamatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declamatory
Literary usage of Declamatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Voice Culture and Elocution by William T. Ross (1890)
"There is far too much declaiming in the declamatory, too much of the dramatic in
... The Parliamentary and declamatory styles predominate in Deliberative ..."
2. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences by Oliver Hampton Smith (1858)
"His eloquence was neither of the cold Eastern, nor declamatory Southern character,
but rather of the style of the West. Mr. Bell was one of the Cabinet that ..."
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