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What does declaim mean?

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Verb
  1. To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
  2. To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
  3. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
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If you declaim that God is nowhere, you are installing night in your heart and making it ready for dark schemes and misdeeds.
It was demanded of psychologists that they declaim on all that screaming and its meaning.
You know that the performers do not sing, but declaim, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
After the sunset we all get together in the main room of the convent, to declaim some suttas in order to pay tribute to Buddha.
The settlers, who endlessly declaim their love for the country, love it the way a rapist loves his victim.
It's what is ongoing and visible, so it's the part that people get to judge and assess and gossip about and declaim on.

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