Dĕc'la-mā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. declamatio, from declamare; Fr. déclamation. See DECLAIM.] 1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud or empty speaking in public; especially, the delivery of a speech or exercise, as in a school, college, &c.; as, a public declamation; the practice of declamation. The public listened with little emotion . . . to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

2. A set speech or harangue.
3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.