peroration
noun
a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
perorative
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a word derived from
peroration.
Example Sentences
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We remember some of these perorative paragraphs, and sometimes we have been tempted to ask whether the same note is struck in the preaching of to-day as was sounded forth in their stirring words.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
Monty," says I, when Silver had slacked, up, "you may have Manhattan correctly discriminated in your perorative, but I doubt it.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
