peroration Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Per`o*ra"tion noun
Etymology
L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration.
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke.

Webster 1913