peroration

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He counseled moderation and conservatism, and his peroration was a flowery panegyric of the "noble man whose hand is on the helm, guiding the grand old ship of state into safe harbor The office-holders went wild with enthusiasm.

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  1. The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse or argument, and urges them with greater earnestness and force, with a view to make a deep impression on his hearers; hence, the conclusion of a speech, however constructed. Nephew, what means this passionate discourse, This peroration with such circumstance? Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. l. 105. His enthusiasm kindles as he advances, and when he arrives at his peroration it is in full blaze. Burke.

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  • The peroration is the only other part of my defence I shall venture to quote. —  Prisoner for Blasphemy
  • He spoke for three hours; his peroration was so grandly eloquent as to bring down the House and galleries in a round of applause. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • The speech occupied two hours and forty minutes, and the peroration was thrilling. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • How much you will have to say to me about the Greeks, unless you begin first to abuse me about the Romans ; and if you begin that , the peroration will be a very pathetic one, in my being turned out of your doors. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • In these words to the political refugee he employs the familiar republican "thou"; in the peroration, addressed, like the introduction, to the lady herself, he recurs to the polite and distant "you." —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
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  1. from Old French peroration, peroraison, French péroraison=Spanish peroracion = Portuguese peroração = Italian perorazione, from Latin peroratio(n-), the finishing part of a speech, from perorare, past participle peroratus, bring a speech to a close: see perorate.
 

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