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  1. 1. n. A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. i. To make an harangue; to declaim. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To address by an harangue. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion Source: wordnet
  5. 5. v. deliver a harangue to; address forcefully Source: wordnet
  6. 6. A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton. Syn. -- Harangue, Speech, Oration. Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the subject of their wrongs. To make an harangue; to declaim. To address by an harangue. Source: webster
  7. 7. A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popularoration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy orpompous speech; declamation; ranting.Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, andharangues are heard. Milton. Source: adambom
  8. 8. n:42/v:58 n. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion v. deliver a harangue to; address forcefully Source: ecdict

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