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Definition of harangue :
1. 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.
2. To address by an harangue.
3. To make an harangue; to declaim.
Synonyms:
language, utterance, jeremiad, discussion, praise, fustian, discourse, speech, fulmination, address, Philippic, oratory, talk, oration, bombast, rant, disquisition, diatribe, speaking, dissertation, sermon, tirade, claptrap, blah, ranting
Usage examples:
- Again, There is no passage in Aristophanes more amusing than the harangue of Muesilochus.
- He has apparently not lost a single word of your harangue. - "'O Thou, My Austria!'", Ossip Schubin.
- But because this is an error into which such people are very apt to fall; and as there want not some of the vulgar who take it for a great hardship, also making it one of those topics upon which they take occasion to harangue against the severity of a Law that they do not understand, I think it will not, therefore, be improper to explain it. - "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", Arthur L. Hayward.