Speechifying
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Speechifying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of speechify.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of speechify.
More Meanings
- The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
- The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.
Example Sentences
"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."
“To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.
Word Forms
- speechifyings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include speech, discourse, rhetoric, speechcraft, homiletics, elocution.
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