declaim (verb) - to speak in a dramatic, formal, or pompous way [dih-kleym]
BREAKDOWN: DE- (down) + CLAM- (cry or shout)
a declamation is a rhetorical or emotional speech or text; the act or art of declaiming
declamatory means oratorical, rhetorical, or bombastic
“Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor.” —Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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