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单词 speech-making
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speech-makingn.

Etymology: formed as speech-maker n.
a. The action or fact of making or delivering speeches.
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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
1718 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Wks. Pref. to Æneis (1735) I. p. xl I do not understand why Speech-making in an Heroick Poem must be called Dramatic.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. lxiii When a mania took place in Athens, whether for cock-fighting or speech-making,..it was no slight obstacle that could oppose it.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xlix. 264 Speech-making is a new thing for me.
1876 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest iv. §47 Through sixteen hundred years of effort and speech-making, and fighting.
b. An instance or occasion of this.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > an instance or occasion of
speech-making1835
speechifying1843
1835 J. Foster Let. 20 Nov. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 302 Some of our journals and speech-makings.
1845 C. Dickens Chimes ii. 73 Don't look for me to come up into the Park..when there's a Birthday, or a fine Speechmaking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

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speech-making
b. With agent-nouns, verbal nouns, or present participles, as speech analyser, speech-bringer, speech-trainer, speech-writer; speech-bereaving, speech-getting, speech-making, speech-shunning, speech-training, etc.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77v The speech-shunning sores, and sight-ircking botches of theyr vnsatiate intemperance.
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. E1v If speech-bereauing loue will let thee speake.
1717 N. Rowe Poems in Wks. (1728) I. 79 That Tyburn-Tribe of speech-making Non-jurors.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude in Sibylline Leaves 66 A vain, speech-mouthing, speech-reporting Guild.
1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 419 One of our politicians..reproached him..with being a λογογράϕος, or speech-writer.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 23 Their miraculous healer and speech-bringer is rapt away.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ii. 13 The whole process of speech-getting.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 11/1 To complete any gaps there may be in the speech training of the members.
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 99 Many people..flare up at any suggestion (except from a speech-trainer consulted voluntarily) of possible improvements in their speech.
1973 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 18 90 Using the speech analyzer..we then recorded an intonation curve (in Hz) for each sentence on photo-sensitive paper.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iv. 88 The transatlantic custom of using speech-writers, recently imported into Britain for the use of certain eminent politicians and others, is only to be deplored.
1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. vii. 86 Young learners will learn best through mimicry with speech training games for interest and for special points of difficulty, but with little or no use of phonetics.
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