speechment

plural speechments

1. obsoleteAn act of speaking; a speech.

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   With respect to the naval department, the plan of the Bible Society's operations cannot be more pithily explained than they are in the Liverpool speechment of the Rev. R. Newton, "who expected," he said, "to hear that Marine Bible Associations would be formed on board different ships, that the captain would take the chair, and honest Jack would move, and Tom second the resolutions."

   1822, Henry Handley Norris, A respectful letter to the earl of Liverpool, page 52