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peroration |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peroration \Per`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. peroratio, fr perorate, peroratum to speak from beginning to end per + orate to speak. See {Per-}, and {Oration}.] (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. --Burke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: peroration n : (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it
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