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Definition

giving a speech to an audience

he delivered an oration on the decline of family values

oration = giving a speech to an audience

Every June during the time of our school exhibition, the graduating class gave orations and dialogues on Friday night.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

orations = speeches

Soon as they've passed their last examinations in Solid Geometry and Cicero's Orations, looks like they suddenly feel themselves fit to get married—
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

orations = speeches

[A burlesque oration in mock Puerto Rican accent.]
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story

oration = speech (to an audience)

Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honor.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

oration = speech

The priest's attention seemed to retire to some private oratory to wait until she got through.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
"Our host", he reminded me, for I had been denouncing the death of oratory, "is generally supposed to be a good speaker."
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
But you're not here to make funeral orations for dead traitors.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
Which of these two speeches, think you, would be the best oration for your own funeral?
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Mustapha Mond's oratory was almost up to synthetic standards.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Chiltern's speech last night on this Argentine Canal scheme was one of the finest pieces of oratory ever delivered in the House since Canning.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
A kind of poetry naturally suited to elaborate description and oration and hymnic address, symbolic dreams, and armings.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
VOLP: It will take off his oratory's edge.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
The Professor with these words ceased his oration, and I burst forth into loud and "unanimous" applause.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
They sent cunning messengers, raised to oration the way Masks are raised to war.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
DRUMMOND So you, Matthew Harrison Brady, through oratory, legisla-tion, or whatever, pass along God's orders to the rest of the world!
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
An old colleague of the dead scientist, still a member of the Academy of Sciences, had been brave enough to make the funeral oration.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Upon my word it was magnificent, the style of the oratory.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
I must admit I felt the old surge of love and oratory and I haven't a drop of Galician blood.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

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