Declaim
verb (used without object)
1.
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech:
Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
2.
to inveigh (usually followed by against):
He declaimed against the high rents in slums.
3.
to speak or write for oratorical effect, as without sincerity or sound argument.
verb (used with object)
4.
to utter aloud in an oratorical manner:
to declaim a speech.
verb
1.
to make (a speech, statement, etc) loudly and in a rhetorical manner
2.
to speak lines from (a play, poem, etc) with studied eloquence; recite
3.
(intransitive) foll by against. to protest (against) loudly and publicly
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