About The Word Harangue
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Harangue
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What's The Definition Of Harangue?
[n] a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
[v] deliver a harangue to; address forcefully Synonyms | Synonyms for Harangue: rant | ranting Related Terms | Find terms related to Harangue: address | after-dinner speech | allocution | assignment | chalk talk | debate | declaim | declamation | demagogue | diatribe | discourse | disquisition | elocute | eulogy | exercise | exhortation | explain | exposit | exposition | expound | filibuster | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | funeral oration | hold forth | homework | homily | hortatory address | inaugural | inaugural address | instruction | invective | jeremiad | lecture | lecture-demonstration | lesson | moral | moral lesson | morality | moralization | moralize | mouth | object lesson | orate | oration | out-herod Herod | pep talk | perorate | peroration | philippic | pitch | point a moral | pontificate | preach | preachment | prepared speech | prepared text | public speech | rabble-rouse | rant | rant and rave | rave | read | read a lesson | reading | recital | recitation | recite | rodomontade | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | sermon | sermonize | set speech | set task | skull session | soapbox | speech | speechification | speeching | spiel | spout | talk | talkathon | task | teaching | tirade | tub-thump | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address | vituperate | vituperation See Also | address | declamation | screed | speak Harangue In Webster's Dictionary \Ha*rangue"\, n. [F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenda, It.
aringa; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings,
It. aringo arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring,
anything round, ring of people, G. ring. See {Ring}.]
A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular
oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy
or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed,
Assemble, and harangues are heard. --Milton.
Syn: {Harangue}, {Speech}, {Oration}.
Usage: Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and
rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to
the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A
general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of
a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the
subject of their wrongs.
\Ha*rangue"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Harangued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Haranguing}.] [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.] To make an harangue; to declaim. \Ha*rangue"\, v. t. To address by an harangue. |
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