declamation
I
noun
address, allocution, art of speaking, dedamatio, discourse, elocution, grandiloquence, harangue, lecture, oration, oratorical display, oratory, orotundity, pronuntiatio, public speaking, reading, recital, recitation, rhetoric, screed, sermon, speech, speechification, talk, tirade
II
index
bombast, charge (statement to the jury), discourse, fustian, harangue, peroration, rhetoric (insincere language), speech
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006