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oratiuncle

oratiuncle noun: short speech or oration.

Noun

oratiuncle (plural oratiuncles)

  1. (rare) short speech or oration
    • As he was his friends chief Advocate he thinks it his duty to become Oratour, therefore in two or three ſhort and ſweet oratiuncles (each of which might have been Printed by F. S. for a Speech of a Noble Peer of the Realm) he exhorts them to make the ſame worthy choiſe […]1681, White Kennett, A Letter from a Student at Oxford to a Friend in the Country Concerning the Approaching Parliament, in Vindication of His Majesty, the Church of England and University, pages 3–4
    • […] one or other of the two had risen, and in a short, plain, unvarnished oratiuncle, told the company that the thing must be done, and why […]1832, John Wilson, “Noctes Ambrosianæ”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 32, page 393

Forms of oratiuncle

pluraloratiuncles

Origin of oratiuncle

Borrowed from Latin ōrātiuncula, from ōrātiō (“speech”) + -uncula (feminine diminutive suffix).

Questions about oratiuncle

What does oratiuncle mean?
Oratiuncle means short speech or oration.
What part of speech is oratiuncle?
Oratiuncle is a noun.
What is the plural of oratiuncle?
The plural of oratiuncle is oratiuncles.

Words near oratiuncle in the dictionary

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

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