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Definition of Peroration
1. Noun. A flowery and highly rhetorical oration.
2. Noun. (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration. "He summarized his main points in his peroration"
Category relationships: Rhetoric
Generic synonyms: Close, Closing, Conclusion, End, Ending
Group relationships: Oration
Derivative terms: Perorate
Generic synonyms: Close, Closing, Conclusion, End, Ending
Group relationships: Oration
Derivative terms: Perorate
Definition of Peroration
1. n. The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Definition of Peroration
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A discourse or rhetorical argument in general. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peroration
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