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Definition of Tirade
1. Noun. A speech of violent denunciation.
Definition of Tirade
1. n. A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Definition of Tirade
1. Noun. A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe ¹
2. Noun. A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tirade
1. a long, vehement speech [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tirade
Literary usage of Tirade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"... Broglie—Position of the Due d'Orleans—Return to England—Conservative
Reaction —Shell's tirade against Lord Lyndhurst—Lyndhurst as a Tory Leader—Angry ..."
2. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville (1874)
"... Broglie — Position of the Due d'Orleans — Return to England — Conservative
reaction — Shell's tirade against Lord Lyndhurst — Lyndhurst as a Tory leader ..."
3. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... tirade is THE SENATE—THE CALIFORNIA CLAIMS—EXPENSES OF THB CONQUEST. AT San
Francisco Kearny found Colonel Richard B. Mason of the 1st dragoons and ..."
4. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"Indians—Sea Serpent—Church Service—Religious Feeling—Cookery—Drinks —National
Slang—Passionate love of Pork—A tirade against Tobacco : Smoking, ..."
5. Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1890)
"My tirade against the rebels — " Chivalry in a negro " — Fadl el Mulla asserts
himself — Emin signs the papers — Steamer to be sent to M'Swa — I prepare to ..."
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