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Definition of Perorations
1. peroration [n] - See also: peroration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perorations
Literary usage of Perorations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"In relation to the Attic theory of eloquence, it is most instructive to compare
the perorations of Aeschines and Demosthenes. ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Cll Attic perorations in Cicero ami Erskine. The personalities of ancient oratory.
THE ATTIC ORATORS of a completed harmony. Cicero has now and then an ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"In his perorations, especially, the author often rises to a loftiness and fervor
that merit in a high sense the title of true eloquence. ..."
4. The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon Including the Advancement by Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey (1904)
"... Perorations, and Leading Arguments). WE next proceed to the doctrine of ornament
in speech, called by the name of rhetoric or oratory. ..."
5. Annual Register by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Edmund Burke (1891)
"About three times a night for the last week I have listened to perorations, in
which 1 have been told that the hour-glass is rapidly running out, ..."
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