declamations

Noun

declamation (countable and uncountable, plural declamations)

1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.

   Synonyms:

   haranguing

   1. The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.
      • His recitations were prompt and correct, and his answers were given with confidence. But perhaps he did himself most credit in declamation. He had always been very fond of that, and though he had never received and scientific instruction in it, he possessed a natural grace and a deep feeling of...1873, Horatio Alger, chapter V, in Bound to Rise
2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.
   • mere declamation