Declamation

Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language · 1890 · p. 53

dek-la-ma'-shun, s. the act or art of declaiming, according to rules, so as accurately to expre the sentiment; harangue; a display of empty impa ioned rhetorical oratory. tice of declaiming; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; appealing to the pa ions; rhetorical, without solid sense or argument.