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perorate
[ per-uh-reyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- to bring a speech to a close with a formal conclusion.
perorate
/ ˈ±èÉ›°ùəˌ°ù±ðɪ³Ù /
verb
- to speak at length, esp in a formal manner
- to conclude a speech or sum up, esp with a formal recapitulation
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è±ð°ùo·°ù²¹î€…t´Ç°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,†Sting said.
It perorates for a supernaturalist whose fashionable ignorance, touched with less durable vulgarity, blinded him to such visions as, in our time, the poet "A. E." has depicted.
The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.
A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—"This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth."
Mr. Tompkins marries their insights to those of Jews, Buddhists and Muslims, and he perorates with a survey of people who have encountered apparitions of dead animals.
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