Meaning of Peroration | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.”

“The young man achieved perfect timing, for the last word of his peroration coincided with the muffled clap of the doors closing, after having launched the coffin onto the rails of a subterranean railway.”

“His peroration, to which, he [JD Vance] said, he had given much thought, would feature, for his mic drop, a pearl of wisdom from “the great prophet and statesman” Richard Milhous Nixon.”

“Nephew, what means this passionate discourse, This peroration with such circumstance?”

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