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orationing

orationing is the present participle and gerund of oration.

Meaning of oration

Verb

oration (third-person singular simple present orations, present participle orationing, simple past and past participle orationed)

  1. To deliver an oration; to speak.
    • They gave answers with great sufficiency touching all difficulties concerning their own law, and had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giving judgement.1633, John Donne (attributed translator), The Auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since, London, p. 80, cited in Henry Todd, A Dictionary of the English...

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Questions about orationing

What is orationing the present participle and gerund of?
Orationing is the present participle and gerund of oration.

Words near orationing in the dictionary

  1. oration
  2. orational
  3. orationed
  4. orationes obliquae
  5. orationes rectae
  6. orationing
  7. orations
  8. oratiuncle
  9. oratiuncles
  10. orator
  11. oratoress

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