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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peroration
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so when Drabik delivered her marvelous peroration on Shakespeare, I had to wonder how many students got it.
▪ Equally sudden a peroration of chatter from a local mockingbird broke the silence.
▪ However his ringing peroration struck most of those present as being ridiculous, and many laughed aloud.
▪ There was not much else on offer in the leader's peroration to feed the faithful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peroration

Peroration \Per`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration.] (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
--Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peroration

mid-15c., from Latin perorationem (nominative peroratio) "the ending of a speech or argument of a case," from past participle stem of perorare "argue a case to the end, bring a speech to a close," from per- "to the end" (see per) + orare "to speak, plead" (see orator).

Wiktionary
peroration

n. 1 The conclude 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. 2 A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.

WordNet
peroration

  1. n. a flowery and highly rhetorical oration

  2. (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

Usage examples of "peroration".

As for the bishop, he was so upset that he let the typescript of his carefully prepared allocution flutter to the floor below, with the result that he was promptly reduced to a peroration in terms of embarrassed improvisation.

And so he went on, throwing iron awls to the women to be used instead of their bone bodkins, iron knives to take the place of pieces of stone in killing beavers and cutting their meat, till he reached his peroration, which was punctuated with handfuls of round beads for the adornment of their children and girls.

Larkin, Esq., delivered this peroration from a moral elevation, all the loftier that he had a peer of the realm on his side.

With this peroration, Mr. Bucket, buttoned up, goes quietly out, looking steadily before him as if he were already piercing the night in quest of the fugitive.

By the time that Philippus reached his peroration, the senators would have agreed to practically anything to be allowed to go home for food and sleep.

Green crescents were everywhere, and the ayatollahs were out in force delivering perorations to excited crowds.

AND THE First Speaker's voice projected sharply through the startled hubbub caused by Third's empassioned peroration, "we abandon the planet now, with no logical explanation for the disappearance -- and I see no logical explanation short of killing our people outright and leaving their bodies to be found .

AND THE First Speaker's voice projected sharply through the startled hubbub caused by Third's empassioned peroration, "we abandon the planet now, with no logical explanation for the disappearance -- and I see no logical explanation short of killing our people outright and leaving their bodies to be found.

By now he ought to be revving up for his final peroration, tearing Corinium limb from limousine, but he was saying nothing.