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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Declamation

· Dec·la·ma·tion · IPA /ˌdɛkləˈmeɪʃən/
01 n. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an…
  1. 1.
    The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
    “The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation.” — Macaulay.
  2. 2.
    A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
  3. 3.
    Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.