Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse or argument, and urges them with greater earnestness and force, with a view to make a deep impression on his hearers; hence, the conclusion of a speech, however constructed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
concluding section of adiscourse , either written or oral, in which theorator or writer sums up andcommends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component ofancient Roman oratorical delivery. - noun A discourse or
rhetorical argument in general.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration
- noun a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
Etymologies
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Examples
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None of this, including Ledeen’s peroration, is what it seems.
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Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2010
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Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech.
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Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech.
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Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech.
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Although the topic was of particular moment only in tiny Floyd County, his peroration was the finest speech I have ever heard.
Archive 2005-07-03 Randy Smith 2005
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But the peroration is direct and personal.] 94 Hodie, Episcope, de me proposuisti.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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North, recalled the peroration of his father's reply to Hayne, and bitterly regretted that, when his eyes were turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, it had been his unhappy lot to "see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union, on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with internal feuds, and drenched [as then it was] with fraternal blood."
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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His peroration is a very fine piece of composition.
bilby commented on the word peroration
"It was not for this, however, that the countries of Europe and North America gathered up their skirts and walked out of Ahmadinejad's peroration. The UK's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Peter Gooderham, rather gave the game away when he said afterwards: 'As soon as President Ahmadinejad started talking about Israel, that was the cue for us to walk out. We agreed in advance that if there was any such rhetoric there would be no tolerance for it.' The Iranian leader, he went on to say, was guilty of anti-Semitisim. Just how you can accuse a man of anti-Semitisim when you haven't stayed to hear him talk is one of those questions which the Foreign Office no doubt trains its diplomats to explain."
- Adrian Hamilton, Walking out on Ahmadinejad was just plain childish, independent.co.uk, 23 April 2009.
April 24, 2009