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English Dictionary: declamatory by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
declamatory
adj
  1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
    Synonym(s): bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
      d[82]clamatoire.]
      1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
            rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
  
      2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
            rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
            noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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