RANTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ranting mean? 

• RANTING (noun)
  The noun RANTING has 1 sense:

1. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

  Familiarity information: RANTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

harangue; rant; ranting

Hypernyms ("ranting" is a kind of...):

declamation (vehement oratory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ranting"):

screed (a long monotonous harangue)

Derivation:

rant (talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner)

 Context examples 

Let us have no ranting tragedies.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I joined them because Margery Alspaye, of Bolder, married Crooked Thomas of Ringwood, and left a certain John of Hordle in the cold, for that he was a ranting, roving blade who was not to be trusted in wedlock.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He stepped to the door, rejoicing at that moment in having the means of immediate communication, and, opening it, found himself on the stage of a theatre, and opposed to a ranting young man, who appeared likely to knock him down backwards.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)