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declaim against

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de⋅claim

  [di-kleym]
Use declaim against in a Sentence
–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 fol. 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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME declamen < L dēclāmāre, equiv. to dē- de- + clāmāre to cry, shout; see claim

Related forms:
de⋅claim⋅er, noun
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