-|rāshən noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English peroracyon, from Latin peroration-, peroratio, from peroratus + -ion-, -io -ion
1. : the concluding part of a composition or discourse (as an oration) : a final usually formal summing up of the argument (as in a speech)
concludes, in a moving peroration — Alice S. Morris
framing … the peroration of his powerful maiden speech — Harold Nicolson
2. : a flowery highly rhetorical speech
what means this passionate discourse? this peroration with such circumstance — Shakespeare
• per·ora·tion·al -shən ə l, -shnəl adjective