declaim
verb (used without object)
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech.
declaimer
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a word derived from
declaim.
Example Sentences
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In person, they have the same dynamic as they do on the radio — Francesa the Olympian-voiced declaimer and Russo the semi-manic foil.
From Los Angeles Times ā Jul. 11, 2017
North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was agreed, that a good declaimer was as rare as a good poet.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
His long practice as a declaimer had given him a habit of exaggeration, and of aiming rather at rhetorical brilliancy than truth.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
The trovador was the poet, the author, the juglar merely the singer or declaimer, although no very hard-and-fast line was drawn betwixt them.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
