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EPIDEICTIC ORATORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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