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{
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "discourse"
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{
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "harangue"
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{
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "lecture"
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{
"sense": "lengthy speech in a private setting",
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"word": "spiel"
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵuṭba",
"sense": "formal speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "خُطْبَة"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎržestvena reč",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "тържествена реч"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "formal speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "redevoering"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "juhlapuhe"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oraison"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "orasi"
},
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"code": "la",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "formal speech",
"word": "pengucapan"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "formal speech",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oracja"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "oraison"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "short, solemn prayer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oracja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "short, solemn prayer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oração"
}
],
"word": "oration"
}
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"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
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"form": "orations",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "orationing",
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"participle",
"present"
]
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{
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{
"text": "1633, John Donne (attributed translator), The Auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since, London, p. 80, cited in Henry Todd, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, Volume 3,\nThey gave answers with great sufficiency touching all difficulties concerning their own law, and had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giving judgement."
},
{
"text": "1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garratt, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Dublin: S. Price et al., 1778, Volume 1, p. 286,\n[…] Master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning; that can lay down the law: why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson: and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia […]"
},
{
"ref": "1876, George Meredith, chapter 10, in Beauchamp’s Career, volume 2, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 129:",
"text": "What right have you to be lecturing and orationing? You’ve no knowledge.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deliver an oration; to speak."
]
}
],
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"General-American"
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},
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{
"word": "hold forth"
},
{
"word": "orate"
},
{
"word": "sermonize"
},
{
"word": "speechify"
}
],
"word": "oration"
}
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