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peroration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɛɹəˈɹeɪʃən/
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Etymology

From Latin perōrō (“to speak at length, to conclude a speech”) (from per- (“very”) + ōrō (“to speak, to orate”) (English orate)) + -ation (“action (nominalizer)”) (from Latin -ātiō).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 480:
   • This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20:
   • 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. 2025 April 26, Simon Schama, “The war on knowledge”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
2. (countable, uncountable) A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
   • Nephew, what means this passionate discourse, This peroration with such circumstance? 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

Forms

Deriveds

perorational

Relateds

oration

Translations (7)

sv sammanfattning (conclusion of a discourse) · grc ἐπίλογος (conclusion of a discourse) · fr péroraison (conclusion of a discourse) · oc perorason (conclusion of a discourse) · de Zusammenfassung (conclusion of a discourse) · de Redeschluss (conclusion of a discourse) · bg резюме (conclusion of a discourse)