orations in English

noun

1

a formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion.

They've done mock interviews, funeral orations , series of imagined letters from the famous person to a grandchild, or from an invented friend to the famous person.

synonyms: speech, address, lecture, talk, homily, sermon, discourse, declamation, valedictory, salutatory, spiel, allocution

noun

speech, address, lecture, talk, homily, sermon, discourse, declamation, valedictory, salutatory, spiel, allocution

Use "orations" in a sentence

1. After the death of Julius Caesar he delivered his 14 Philippic orations against Mark Antony.

2. Synonyms for Allocutions include addresses, lectures, speech, talks, orations, lessons, prelections, homilies, spiels and discourse

3. His writings and public orations constantly attack Protestantism and blame the Reformation for many ills.

4. Cicero's many works can be divided into four groups: (1) letters, (2) rhetorical treatises, (3) philosophical works, and (4) orations.

5. Also in 342 BC, he delivered the Third Philippic, which is considered to be the best of his political orations.

6. Many experienced speakers mar their conversations as well as their orations with a profusion of ums and ers which distract attention.

7. But the truth is, all those orations that I had practiced, just to get myself through some training swims as motivation -- it wasn't like that.

8. Orations, of Arsanes agaynst Philip of Macedone: of the Embassadors of Venice against the Prince that vnder Crafty League with Scanderbeg, layed snares for Christendome: and of Scanderbeg prayeng Ayde of Christian Princes With a Notable Example of …

9. Bowier who is widely known for his riveting orations of Liberian history and who worked in the administration of Samuel Kanyon Doe, told journalists last week that there are unfolding events that parallel the two transitions, and that more will unfold as the new government moves on.

10. Orations of Arsanes agaynst Philip the trecherous kyng of Macedone: : of the Embassadors of Venice against the prince that vnder crafty league with Scanderbeg, layed snares for Christendome : and of Scanderbeg prayeng ayde of Christian Princes agaynst periurous murderyng Mahumet and agaynst the old false Christian Duke Mahumetes confederate

11. Besides ‘Gorboduc’ and the translations from Peter Martyr, Calvin, and Alexander Nowell which have been already noticed, Norton was, according to Tanner, author of the anonymous ‘Orations of Arsanes agaynst Philip, the trecherous king of Macedone, with a notable Example of God's vengeance uppon a faithlesse Kyng, Quene, and her children