All 8 Uses of

oration
in
Arrowsmith

Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.†
Chpt 9

He was a man who never merely talked: he either bubbled or made orations.†
Chpt 19

He immediately drowned out even his daughters by an oration on the Home Nest: "Here you've got an illustration of Health in the Home.†
Chpt 19

oration = speech

He was a correspondent of many of the nickel-plated Great Men whose pictures and sonorous aphorisms appeared in the magazines: the advertising men who wrote little books about Pep and Optimism, the editor of the magazine which told clerks how to become Goethes and Stonewall Jacksons by studying correspondence-courses and never touching the manhood-rotting beer, and the cornfield sage who was equally an authority on finance, peace, biology, editing, Peruvian ethnology, and making oratory pay.†
Chpt 22

It's simply that I owe my city the most scrupulous performance of duty in safeguarding it against disease, and the most fearless enforcement—" At the end of his oratory Pickerbaugh telegraphed to Dr. J. C. Long, the Chicago bacteriologist.†
Chpt 22

But since I've gone and given an imitation of him—I suppose it was probably disloyal— I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.†
Chpt 22

The skipper had been trained in oratory by arguments with wharfmasters, and the tourists were reassured.†
Chpt 33

Definition:

giving a speech to an audience