#oratory addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
supertype: #address.speech_act__addres a formal spoken communication delivered to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
subtype: #keynote_speech__keynotespeech__keynote_address a speech setting forth the keynote
subtype: #nominating_speech__nominating_address__nomination an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
subtype: #oration an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
subtype: #declamation vehement oratory
subtype: #harangue__rant__ranting a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
subtype: #screed a long monotonous harangue
subtype: #raving declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
subtype: #stump_speech__stumpspeech political oratory
subtype: #valedictory_address__valediction__valedictory a farewell oration delivered by the most outstanding member of a graduating class
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