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declamatory

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
   d['e]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.

Source : WordNet®

declamatory
     adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
           "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {large}, {orotund},
            {tumid}, {turgid}]
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