Definitions for peroration

peroration per·o·ra·tion

Spelling: [per-uh-rey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌpɛr əˈreɪ ʃən/

Peroration is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 635 anagrams from letters in peroration (aeinooprrt).

Definitions for peroration

noun

  1. a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
  2. Rhetoric. the concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.

Origin of peroration

1400-50; late Middle English Latin perōrātiōn- (stem of perōrātiō) the closing of a speech. See perorate, -ion

Examples for peroration

When I began to listen to the speech again Gorman had reached his peroration.

He felt anew what he had felt and seen, and he could not give any verve to the peroration of his sermon.

I can only give some few sentences taken at haphazard from the peroration.

The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know.

"—For the defence of the country," the Judge concluded his peroration.

It is his notion of freedom, and at once the exordium and peroration of his eloquence.

And three shots served as peroration to this energetic answer.

His arm remained extended aloft as if to sustain his peroration.

Ravished by the vision, he proceeded to write and rewrite the peroration.

You may parody the great statesman's peroration, and say, 'Where the King cannot enter, he can.'

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