Harangue

Noun

 * 1) An impassioned, disputatious public speech.
 * 2) A tirade or rant, whether spoken or written.
 * She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.
 * The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late.
 * 1) * 1895, Stephen Crane, ''The Red Badge of Courage, Ch X:
 * But he continued his harangue without waiting for a reply.

Verb

 * 1)  To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
 * The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.
 * 1) * 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Ch XV:
 * This picture of her consequence had some effect, for no one loved better to lead than Maria; and with far more good-humour she answered, "I am much obliged to you, Edmund; you mean very well, I am sure: but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind. There would be the greatest indecorum, I think."

Adjectives for Harangue
nere; soporific; seditious; inflammatory; tempestuous; conciliatory; soldierly; unintelligible; coherent; explanatory; fiery; belligerent.

Adverbs for Harangue
bombastically; vehemently; seditiously; tempestuously; unintelligibly; coherently; fiercely; belligerently; vigorously.

Verbs for Harangue
allay—; arm with—; crust with—; deliverfrom—; dissemble—" inure to—; incur—;loathe—; overcome—; penetrate—; produce—; rub off—; shed—; suffer—; —defends; —endures; —protects; —resists.

Synonyms for Harangue

 * : admonition, condemnation, criticism, diatribe, rant, tirade
 * admonish, berate, lecture, declaim, plead, rant, rave, orate, scold, sermonize.

Related terms

 * haranguer

Thesaurus
address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declaim, declamation, demagogue, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, elocute, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, explain, exposit, exposition, expound, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, hold forth, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, moralize, mouth, object lesson, orate, oration, out-herod Herod, pep talk, perorate, peroration, philippic, pitch, point a moral, pontificate, preach, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, rabble-rouse, rant, rant and rave, rave, read, read a lesson, reading, recital, recitation, recite, rodomontade, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, sermonize, set speech, set task, skull session, soapbox, speech, speechification, speeching, spiel, spout, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, tub-thump, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vituperate, vituperation

Etymology
From arang: and  harangue:, from  aringa: (modern  arringa:) from aringare: (modern  arringare:), from aringo:, from  *undefined:, akin to  hring: ( >  Ring:).

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Manx: ard-loayrtys
 * Russian: страстное обращение
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Moralpredigt,


 * Greek: ,
 * Manx: ard-loayrtys
 * Spanish:


 * xurrîn, lêheytandin
 * xurrîn, lêheytandin

Verb

 * Ancient Greek: ΕΠΙΔΗΜΗΓΟΡΕΩ
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Greek: κατσαδιάζω, εξαπολύω φιλιππικό (phr.), ψέλνω τον αναβαλλόμενο (phr.), ρίχνω εξάψαλμο (phr.)


 * Ancient Greek: ΑΓΟΡΕΥΩ


 * Greek:


 * xurrîn, lêheytandin
 * xurrîn, lêheytandin