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 ● 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
A mimick of Richardson, is a domestic tyrant: A Sydenham, the rendezvous of diseases: A declaimer against envy, of all men the most invidious.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
This crime, exaggerated with all the virulence of an angry declaimer, closes with a dreadful accusation.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
