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• n  a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
• n  (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration
  he summarized his main points in his peroration

• When he was really rolling in February, Barack Obama would close every speech with a peroration about the importance of hope.
• On any given day, anyone within earshot is likely to get treated to an Ozzie-style peroration on such subjects as Hugo Chvez, the Pope, Elin Gonzlez, why Ozzie shouldn't have .
• When he was really rolling in February , Barack Obama would close every speech with a peroration about the importance of hope.

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• Paying a Moral Debt
  The justly famous peroration of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, which begins with the timeless “With malice toward none; with charity for all,” includes a declaration of the nation’s obligation “to care for him who shall have borne the battle” — a moral debt each new generation of Americans has been called upon to repay.
  Sept. 26, 2013 - Valley News