Speechifying
[spi:tʃɪfaɪɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speechify
(n.) The act of making a speech or speeches.
Typist: Sophie
Examples
- I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves miserable by speechifying on entirely private grounds! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thee'd better keep out of sight, with thy speechifying, said Phineas; they're mean scamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Be hanged to these civilians, he thought to himself, they are always for arranging and speechifying. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Sophie