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PHILIPPIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does philippic mean?
• PHILIPPIC (noun)
The noun PHILIPPIC has 1 sense:
1. a speech of violent denunciation
Familiarity information: PHILIPPIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A speech of violent denunciation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("philippic" is a kind of...):
denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)
declamation (vehement oratory)
Context examples
Mrs. Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, "Miss Morton is Lord Morton's daughter."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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