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harangue (noun, verb)
noun
1: a speech addressed to a public assembly
2: a ranting speech or writing
3: lecture
intransitive verb
: to make a harangue, declaim
transitive verb
: to address in a harangue
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : In Old Italian, the verb aringare meant “to speak in public,” the noun aringo referred to a public assembly, and the noun aringa referred to a public speech. Aringa was borrowed into Middle French as arenge, and it is from this form that we get our noun harangue, which made its first appearance in English in the 16th century with that same “public speech” meaning. Perhaps due to the bombastic or exasperated nature of some public speeches, the term quickly developed an added sense referring to a forceful or angry speech or piece of writing, making it a synonym of rant. By the mid-17th century, the verb harangue made it possible to harangue others with such speech or writing.
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