ha|rangue

ha|rangue
ha|rangue «huh RANG», noun, verb, -rangued, -rangu|ing.
–n.
1. a noisy speech: »

We had to listen to a long harangue about our own shortcomings.

SYNONYM(S): tirade.
2. a long, pompous, formal speech. SYNONYM(S): oration.
3. a speech addressed to an assembly.
–v.t.
to address (someone) in a harangue.
–v.i.
to deliver a harangue: »

There is no subject, which men in general like better to harangue on than politics (Coleridge).

SYNONYM(S): rant, rail.
[< Middle French harangue, earlier arenge, ultimately < Germanic (compare Old High German hring)]
ha|rangu´er, noun.

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