Verb (used with object) : to declaim a speech. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building. ,He declaimed against the high rents in slums. From Dictionary.com.
He is acknowledged to be the best declaimer in the House. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
He was the calm declaimer of the life of everlasting beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The same schoolboy would put to silence the pompous declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Bletterie himself nothing more than a disingenuous, dishonest declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Reddening, he put forth the usual declaimer of honorable intention with the glib tongue of passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
I swear, I've come to suspect that truth is in inverse proportion to the certitude of the declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [R.I.P.] Reference
Jean – Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
This way of reasoning, and this way of speaking, will always form a poor politician, and a puerile declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Halliburton was much respected, but he was a great declaimer as to prices of cattle falling when he was a purchaser. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
The husband was a man of good fortune, who had been a libertine in his youth, and a professed declaimer against matrimony. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Grand and sonorous, he constructs his periods with the manner of a declaimer; his ascriptions and apostrophes are like those of a high-priest. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The younger Pliny was also a famous orator or declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [A Smaller History of Rome] Reference
A VEHEMENT political declaimer, calling aloud for the head of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
Mrs. Luna -- had been on the platform instead of the actual declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)] Reference
Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
So, at last, the great cemetery declaimer and long distance assassin, Mark. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
They say he is always more declaimer than thinker -- more advocate than judge. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference
He has not the temperament of a genius, but that of a rhetorician and declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Father Hecker] Reference
His talent soon raised him to eminence as an improvisatore and dramatic declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Mary was no declaimer, not even in the cause of oppressed goodness or injured genius. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
He is the very quintessence of a declaimer, but a declaimer of a most masculine sort. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Hers was the speech, not of a brilliant declaimer, but the solid logic of a statesman. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
CALLICLES: O Socrates, you are a regular declaimer, and seem to be running riot in the argument. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgias] Reference
Chancery with the approbation of all parties must have been something more than a fine declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
The only other name worthy of mention is Q. HATERIUS, who from an orator became a noted declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The idea that Cicero was a mere declaimer, who did not count, never occurred either to Caesar or to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
This crime, exaggerated with all the virulence of an angry declaimer, closes with a dreadful accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Lagrange was at once a popular and chivalrous declaimer, who expressed true sentiments in a forced voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
Dryden, but as a literary artist, and brilliant declaimer satirist and moralizer in verse he is still unrivaled. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Criticism] Reference
Motley came to Round Hill, as one of his schoolmates tells me, with a great reputation, especially as a declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
James was a verbose and ornate declaimer; Philip was a close, cogent reasoner, without any attempt at elegance or display. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Scarcely a crime was committed during the revolution, with which this century closes, but could find its advocate in this declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
A little to their left was an extemporary declaimer, shouting forth the praises of his master, with his pedigree, and near him stood a man with. From Wordnik.com. [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference
Never did any author enter into a cause, with a more ardent desire to be found, not a flourishing and empty declaimer, but an effectual champion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Juvenal is hardly more a satirist than Lucan: he is indeed a vigorous and bold declaimer, but he stamps too often, and splashes up too much filth. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
Writing was a great pleasure, and though my productions at school were far too irregular for me to call them good, I was certainly the best declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
There should however be a declaimer attached to the squashy feelings of joy, for it's now time to rebuild and I suspect that it's not going to be easy. From Wordnik.com. [Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media] Reference
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