Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-CLAM'A-TO-RY
DE-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a. [L. declamatorius.]
- Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. – Wotton.
- Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as, a declamatory way or style.
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