EPIDEICTIC ORATORY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A 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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epideictic oratory" is a kind of...):

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

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