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.
Verb (used with object) : to declaim a speech. 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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