the act or art of declaiming.

exercise in oratory or elocution, as in the recitation of a classic speech.

speech or writing for oratorical effect.

Music . the proper enunciation of the words, as in recitative.

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lecture , address , oration , tirade , speech , haranguing , spouting , oratory , speechmaking , speechifying , allocution , prelection , talk , elocution , rhetoric