Orature

Quick meaning: Orature is a noun meaning The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing.

Meaning

The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland, chiefly Christianity, archaic) Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”).

Example Sentences

It is because of this that Mr Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan linguist and literary critic, has coined the word ‘orature’.

This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.

In the chapter on Aidoo, I note that certain genres of the orature, particularly the dilemma tales, have unresolved endings which call for community response; this is evident in the ending of Song as well.

This bishop was ane wyse and godlie man, and answered the king in this maner, as after follows, saying, “Sir, I beseech your Grace, that ye take a little meat to refresh you, and I will passe to my orature and pray to God for you, and the commonwealth of this realme and cuntrie.[”]

Word Forms

• oratures

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