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Oratory

A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Speech 76% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Declamation 76% connected

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise…

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Nomination 76% connected

The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

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Oration 76% connected

An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference…

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Salutatory 76% connected

Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commen…

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Valediction 76% connected

A farewell; a bidding farewell.

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Valedictory 76% connected

Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.

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Oratorical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical es…

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Oratorical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical es…

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