Synonyms:
oration
Meaning: an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
Usage examples
And then, from habit, he glanced at the clock in the tower, and made further oration.
Did you see him jump up when Alice ended her oration? He'd have gone to her if I hadn't held him back.
Did not Pontanus, poet and philosopher of unrivalled Latinity, make the finest possible oration at Naples to welcome the French king, who had come to dethrone the learned orator's royal friend and patron? and still Pontanus held up his head and prospered.
They were dancing and flashing with excitement now, and his whole frame was quivering with enthusiasm; with head thrown back, and tongue, hand, and foot all in motion, he seemed to have his audience completely spell-bound, and they listened with open eyes and mouths to his oration.