[…] the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen.
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Philippic
//fɪˈlɪpɪk//
Synonyms for "philippic" (78 found)
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12 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изобличителна реч noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
- филипика noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Catalan
1 entries- filípica noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Czech
1 entries- filipika noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Finnish
1 entries- filippiikki noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
French
1 entries- philippique noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
German
1 entries- Philippika noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Japanese
1 entries- ピリッピカ noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Russian
1 entries- фили́ппика noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- filipika noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
- филипика noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
Spanish
1 entries- filípica noun (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)
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Mrs. Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter phillipic; “Miss Morton is Lord Morton’s daughter.”
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"Sir Robert Akhurst is a good man, a very good man, notwithstanding his philippic; but he is an old one, which makes all the difference."
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Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God’s earth, far and away superior to England
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