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peroration

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10 lettersPronunciation /pɛɹəˈɹeɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aeinooprrtStarts with PEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration

Word origin

From Latin perōrō (“to speak at length, to conclude a speech”) (from per- (“very”) + ōrō (“to speak, to orate”) (English orate)) + -ation (“action (nominalizer)”) (from Latin -ātiō).

Used in a sentence

  • This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.
  • The young man achieved perfect timing, for the last word of his peroration coincided with the muffled clap of the doors closing, after having launched the coffin onto the rails of a subterranean railway.
  • His peroration, to which, he [JD Vance] said, he had given much thought, would feature, for his mic drop, a pearl of wisdom from “the great prophet and statesman” Richard Milhous Nixon.

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