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  • noun Plural form of oration.

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Examples

  • Here were no encomiums of her in orations, nor poems inscribed to her memory; but the widows showed the coats and garments which she made for them, and bestowed upon them while she was with them.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Forensic orations, that is, those carrying no honor, were assigned to

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • There are extant seven so-called orations about Verres, of which the two first apply to the manner in which the case should be brought before the courts.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • There are extant seven so-called orations about Verres, of which the two first apply to the manner in which the case should be brought before the courts.

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Once more he trembled as he rose to make his commencement speech, but slowly, as he went on, his voice grew steady and his manner calmer, for, lad as he was, and tyro at "orations," he was in earnest.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

  • Rabirius was defended by Cicero in one of his orations, which is extant.] [Footnote 497: The Sigillaria was a street in Rome, where a fair was held after the Saturnalia, which lasted seven days; and toys, consisting of little images and dolls, which gave their name to the street and festival, were sold.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • "orations," carefully memorized, and an occasional Fourth of July speech, which might have been better for more memorizing.

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • No black comedian of the postwar period was more popular than Moms Mabley, whose orations on sex and soul food brought hundreds of thousands of black patrons to theaters across the country.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Even at that young age I could see that as he delivered his orations—alternately somber and rousing—he was completely imbued with inner light, inner fire.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Even at that young age I could see that as he delivered his orations—alternately somber and rousing—he was completely imbued with inner light, inner fire.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

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