different between poetry vs declaim

English

Alternative forms

• poëtry (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin po?tria, from po?ta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English l?oþcræft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?i/, [?p????t??]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po??t?i/, [?p?o??.?t??i]
• Hyphenation: po?et?ry

Noun

poetry (usually uncountable, plural poetries)

1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.

   Synonyms: (archaic) poesy, verse

   Antonym: prose

2. A poet's literary production.
3. (figuratively) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:poetry.

Derived terms

• poetry in motion

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Translations

Anagrams

• Proyet, Torpey, tropey

English

Etymology

From Middle French declamer, from Latin d?cl?m?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??kle?m/

Verb

declaim (third-person singular simple present declaims, present participle declaiming, simple past and past participle declaimed)

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.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.

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.

   The students declaim twice a week.

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• camelid, claimed, decimal, maliced, medical