† orationingn.
Obsolete.
The action of delivering a formal speech or oration. Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun]
declamation1552
public speaking1587
oratory1594
orationing1633
speeching1664
rostrum1690
speech-making1718
speechifying1723
speakinga1763
speechification1825
platforming1892
peroratory1903
1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 80 They..had maruailous promptitude, both for Orationing and giuing Iudgment.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 5 You can't think what an orationing father us'd to make every day.
1839 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 479b We have somehow conceived an utter horror of the orationing propensities and tastes of our transatlantic friends.
1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. iii. 45 Now you get out of that trick of prize-orationing. I call it snuffery, sir!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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