Peroration

n.

1.

(Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

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

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