HyperDic: epideictic_oratory

English > 1 sense of the expression epideictic oratory:
NOUNcommunicationepideictic oratorya type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people
English > epideictic oratory: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people.
Example"Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"
Broaderoratoryaddressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

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