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Diatribe

Diatribe Meaning & Definition
Diatribe Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Diatribe?

[n] thunderous verbal attack

Synonyms | Synonyms for Diatribe: fulmination

Related Terms | Find terms related to Diatribe: abuse | address | after-dinner speech | allocution | assailing | assault | attack | berating | bitter words | blackening | chalk talk | contumely | debate | declamation | eulogy | execration | exhortation | filibuster | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | funeral oration | harangue | hard words | hortatory address | inaugural | inaugural address | invective | jawing | jeremiad | onslaught | oration | pep talk | peroration | philippic | pitch | prepared speech | prepared text | public speech | rating | reading | recital | recitation | revilement | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | set speech | speech | speechification | speeching | talk | talkathon | tirade | tongue-lashing | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address | vilification | vituperation

See Also | denouncement | denunciation

Diatribe In Webster's Dictionary

\Di"a*tribe\ (?; 277), n. [L. diatriba a learned discussion, Gr. ?, prop., a wearing away of time, fr. ? to rub away, spend time; dia` through + ? to rub: cf. L. terere, F. trite: cf. F. diatribe.] A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. --John Morley.

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