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declamation
noun
[ dɛkləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the action or art of declaiming.
• "Shakespearean declamation"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘a set speech’): from Latin declamatio(n- ), from the verb declamare (see declaim).