EPIDEICTIC ORATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epideictic oratory mean? 

• EPIDEICTIC ORATORY (noun)
  The noun EPIDEICTIC ORATORY has 1 sense:

1. a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people

  Familiarity information: EPIDEICTIC ORATORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIDEICTIC ORATORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory

Hypernyms ("epideictic oratory" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))