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Peroration Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Peroration has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a flowery and highly rhetorical oration

2

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration

"he summarized his main points in his peroration"

3

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.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
oration conclusion
Rhyming Words
ion aion tion zion pion sion gion bion fion lion dion cion rion orion obion axion deion trion diion arion
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