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English
Verb
speechifying
- present participle and gerund of speechify
Noun
speechifying (plural speechifyings)
- The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
- The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.
1831, L E L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 174:"I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying."
2007 December 9, Scott Timberg, quoting Annalee Newitz, “The descent of a sci-fi guru”, in Los Angeles Times:“To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.