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perorations

perorations is the plural of peroration.

Meaning of peroration

Noun

peroration (countable and uncountable, plural perorations)

  1. The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.
    • This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20
  2. A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
    • Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
      This peroration with such circumstance?1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about perorations

What is perorations the plural of?
Perorations is the plural of peroration.

Words near perorations in the dictionary

  1. perorated
  2. perorates
  3. perorating
  4. peroration
  5. perorational
  6. perorations
  7. perorative
  8. peroryctid
  9. peroryctids
  10. Peros
  11. perosamine

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