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Oratory Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ory

Oratory has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

"he loved the sound of his own oratory"

2

A private chapel or prayer room.

3

The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.

See Also
oration oratorical orate church writing speaking orator speechifying
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
address
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
keynote speech nominating speech oration declamation epideictic oratory stump speech salutatory address valediction
Rhyming Words
ory cory rory sory lory dory gory jory pory frory flory emory atory glory chory story moory amory armory memory
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