oratory (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
examples he loved the sound of his own oratory
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Hypernym address, speech
Derivationally related form oratory → oratorical
Hyponym keynote speech, keynote address; nominating speech, nominating address, nomination; oration; declamation; epideictic oratory; stump speech; salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory; valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory
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Derivationally related form oratorical → oratory
Hyponym address, speech
Hypernym keynote speech, keynote address; nominating speech, nominating address, nomination; oration; declamation; epideictic oratory; stump speech; salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory; valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory

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