Definitions for perorations

perorations per·o·ra·tion

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

Perorations is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1460 anagrams from letters in perorations (aeinooprrst).

Definitions for perorations

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.
  3. a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
  4. 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 perorations

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

Examples for perorations

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.'

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

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

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

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

And three shots served as peroration to this energetic answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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