speechifying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of speechify

plural speechifyings

1. The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
2. The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.

   When filibusters started being used in 1837, the lack of such a motion allowed for endless speechifying.

   2017 February 1, Michelle Cottle, “Why the Filibuster Is a Senator's Best Friend”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2017, retrieved 09 Feb 2025

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   "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."

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 174

   “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.

   2007 December 9, Scott Timberg, quoting Annalee Newitz, “The descent of a sci-fi guru”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020