de-claimer
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.
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declaim (dɪˈkleɪm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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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