Definitions
an instance of oratory
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem, from ōrō (“to orate”) + -tiō (“action (nominalizer)”). Cognate with and doublet of orison.
Used in a sentence
“a funeral oration; an impassioned oration; to make / deliver / pronounce an oration”
“[…] there is ſuch confuſion in my powers, / As after ſome Oration fairely ſpoke / By a beloued Prince, there doth appeare / Among the buzzing pleaſed multitude.”
“And vpon a ſet day Herod arayed in royall apparell, ſate vpon his throne, and made an Oration vnto them.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Formal speech”7 letters
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