DECLAM'ATORY, adjective 1. Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as a declamatory theme. 2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as a declamatory way or style.
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