peroration

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19:56 Dec 16, 2019
English to Polish translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: peroration
Definition from Oxford dictionary:
The concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience.

Example sentence(s):
  • Motioning the startled min­ister to stand aside, the aged stranger improvises a bitter peroration that makes clear the true meaning of the prayer. Harper's magazine
  • When Stubbs gave his inaugural lecture at Oxford in 1867, he concluded his peroration somewhat defiantly. History Today
  • The press and the makers of movies have one common enemy, he said: marketing. On this subject he delivered a truly energized peroration. The Washington Post
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5 +1przemowa, przemówienie, perora
Piotr Kresak


  

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przemowa, przemówienie, perora


Definition from MacMillan Dictionary:
1. the end of a speech, in which the speaker repeats the main points
2. a long boring formal speech

Peroration comes from the Latin root orare, meaning "to speak." This ancestry places peroration in the same word family as oration, meaning "a formal speech," and perorate, meaning "to speak at length." A peroration is usually a step above your run-of-the-mill speech, or even a typical oration, as it involves an extended spoken spectacle filled with elaborate and persuasive language.

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Piotr Kresak
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