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speechification|ˌspiːtʃɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. speechify v.: see -fication.]
1. An instance or occasion of speech-making; a speech, oration, harangue.
1809Spirit Public Jrnls. XIII. 150 Very useful for just seasoning all public speechifications. 1824Southey Sir T. More (1831) I. 361 Quarterly and Annual Meetings, Preachers from a distance, Speechifications. 1851Huxley in L. Huxley Life (1900) I. vii. 89, I made a speechification of some length..about a new animal.
2. The action of making speeches; oratory.
1825Lockhart in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) II. 339 Would not he be a goose to indulge Wordsworth with speechification [etc.]? 1853Conybeare Ess. Eccles. & Soc. (1855) 94 Lectures here, addresses there, and speechification everywhere. 1877Symonds Renaiss. It. II. 528 The fifteenth century was the golden age of speechification. |