oration
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1. oration - Noun
2. oration - Verb
Meaning
An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
To deliver an oration.
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he delivered an oration on the decline of family values
According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
According to Blake, Disraeli "in a brilliant oration of withering invective proceeded to destroy Lowe", who apologised and never held office again.
After Caesar's death, Brutus delivers an oration defending his actions, and for the moment, the crowd is on his side.
Fleming, pp. 405–407 Two years later Nansen broadcast a memorial oration to Amundsen, who had disappeared in the Arctic while organising a rescue party for Nobile whose airship had crashed during a second polar voyage.
An Epistle is an artistic literary form, just like the dialogue, the oration, or the drama.