declaim
verb (used without object)
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech.
had declaimed
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past perfectof declaim.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had lived amongst men who had declaimed about liberty, suffered for liberty, died for liberty, with a desperate exaltation, and with their eyes turned towards an oppressed Italy.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
A reasonable man would thinke Divines had declaimed sufficiently upon these Themes.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward
The plan was made in Paris, for, as Krajevsky had declaimed, France did not mean Albania to exist.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
