Definition of "declamations" [declamations]

• Plural form of declamation. (noun)

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• "Tradition might long preserve some curious circumstances of these important transactions.] 27 A traveller, who returned from Rheims to Auvergne, had stolen a copy of his declamations from the secretary or bookseller of the modest archbishop, (Sidonius"
• "All Connecticut boys knew it by heart, and it had an established place among the 'declamations' of school exhibitions."
• "The exploration of grief also draws from Attic tragedy, with its naked emotionality and poetic declamations: "You must also learn to accept that death is the most sophisticated form of beauty," Mr. Van Booy writes from the oracular second-person point of view used to narrate this half of the novel."