epideictic oratory

Definitions of epideictic oratory
  1. noun
    a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people
    “Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory”
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    type of:
    oratory
    addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
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