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02-10-2015, 12:55 PM
\ per-uh-REY-shuhn \ , noun;
1.
A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2.
Rhetoric. The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
Quotes:
Thus he apostrophised his house and race in terms of the most moving eloquence; but when it came to the peroration —and what is eloquence that lacks a peroration ?—he fumbled. He would have liked to have ended with a flourish to the effect that he would follow in their footsteps and add another stone to their building.
-- Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
This person always provides a dramatic peroration ; it is expected of him and he seldom disappoints. Tamsour is the theme; and the substance is usually personal aggrandizement, sometimes a bit of self-pity, but never apologies for past misdeeds, real or imaginary.
-- Jack Vance, Night Lamp
Origin:
Peroration comes from the Latin word perōrātiōn which meant "a closing speech."
1.
A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2.
Rhetoric. The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
Quotes:
Thus he apostrophised his house and race in terms of the most moving eloquence; but when it came to the peroration —and what is eloquence that lacks a peroration ?—he fumbled. He would have liked to have ended with a flourish to the effect that he would follow in their footsteps and add another stone to their building.
-- Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
This person always provides a dramatic peroration ; it is expected of him and he seldom disappoints. Tamsour is the theme; and the substance is usually personal aggrandizement, sometimes a bit of self-pity, but never apologies for past misdeeds, real or imaginary.
-- Jack Vance, Night Lamp
Origin:
Peroration comes from the Latin word perōrātiōn which meant "a closing speech."