declaim
verb (used without object)
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech.
have declaimed
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present perfectof declaim.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017
Others have declaimed on the theme that the knowledge of history is mischievous and paralyses.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed, “On the Grampian Hills my father feeds his flocks.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
With you they have declaimed against ruinous competition.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White
How long Mr Squeers might have declaimed, or how stormy a discussion his declamation might have led to, nobody knows.
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
