Speechifying

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
  2. 2
    The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.

    ""I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying.""

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of speechify form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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speechmakingspeechmaking

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""I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying.""

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