Hypertext Webster Gateway: "declamatory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
d['e]clamatoire.]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
declamatory
adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {large}, {orotund},
{tumid}, {turgid}]
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