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A lecture that forgot it was supposed to end five minutes ago.
means A long, forceful, scolding speech aimed at browbeating listeners rather than persuading them.
from Traces back through French harangue to an Old Italian/Germanic root tied to speaking before an assembled crowd — a 'ring' of listeners, possibly related to the Germanic word for 'ring' or 'circle,' as in addressing a gathered throng. The word's path through medieval Europe is tangled and not fully settled, but it has meant a public, often bombastic speech since at least the medieval period.
- origin
- from old italian for platform speech
- key trait
- long, forceful, and aggressively one-sided
- not a
- conversation, despite the speaker's belief otherwise
- best used
- describing other people's rants, never your own