de claimer

verb (used without object)

to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.

to inveigh (usually followed by against ): He declaimed against the high rents in slums.

to speak or write for oratorical effect, as without sincerity or sound argument.

verb (used with object)

to utter aloud in an oratorical manner: to declaim a speech.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English declamen < Latin dēclāmāre, equivalent to dē- de- + clāmāre to cry, shout; see claim

Related forms

de·claim·er, noun

un·de·claimed, adjective

un·de·claim·ing, adjective

Can be confused: declaim, disclaim.

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declaim (dɪˈkleɪm)

—vb (foll by against)
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.	to protest (against) loudly and publicly

[C14: from Latin dēclāmāre, from clāmāre to call out]

de'claimer

—n

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Word Origin & History

declaim

late 14c., from L. declamare, from de- intens. prefix + clamare "to cry, shout" (see claim). At first in Eng. spelled declame, but altered under influence of claim.

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"In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any other woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Frédégonde; while Marie de' Medici, whose every action was prejudicial to France, has escaped the disgrace that should cover her name.... Catherine de' Medici ... saved the throne of France, she maintained [the] Royal authority under circumstances to which more than one great prince would have succumbed. Face to face with such leaders of the factions and ambitions of the houses of Guise and of Bourbon as the two Cardinals de Lorraine and the two "Balafrès," the two Princes de Condé, Queen Jeanne d'Albret, Henri IV, the Connétable de Montmorency, Calvin, the Colignys and Théodore de Bèze, she was forced to put forth the rarest fine qualities, the most essential gifts of statesmanship, under the fire of the Calvinist press."

-Honoré De Balzac

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