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Webster 1913 Edition
Tirade
Ti-rade′
,Noun.
[F., fr. It.
tirada
, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare
to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear
to redn. See Tear
to rend, and cf. Tire
to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent
tirade
against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tirade
TIRA'DE
, n.1.
Formerly in French music, the filling of an interval by the intermediate diatonic notes.2.
In modern usage, a strain or flight; a series of violent declamation. Here he delivers a violent tirade against all persons who profess to know any thing about angels.
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English
Noun
tirade (plural tirades)
- A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
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- A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse.
Synonyms
Translations
long, angry or violent speech
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Verb
tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)
- To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
- 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise
- Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead […]
- 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise