| Title: | Declaimer |
| Original Title: | Declamateur |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), p. 680 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Malcolm Eden [University of London] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Declaimer." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Malcolm Eden. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2008. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.910>. Trans. of "Declamateur," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Declaimer." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Malcolm Eden. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.910 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Declamateur," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:680 (Paris, 1754). |
Declaimer, name given to bombastic and over-emphatic orators, who are weak in ideas and strident in expression. Eloquence will be necessarily weak or declamatory whenever the tone is not adapted to the subject. See the article Declamation