Speechified vs Speechifies - What's the difference?
speechified | speechifies |
(speechify)
To give a speech; to hold forth, to pronounce at length.
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* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1351:
To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech.
* 1864 , (Charles Dickens), "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy," ch. 2:
As verbs the difference between speechified and speechifies
is that speechified is (speechify) while speechifies is (speechify).speechified
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(head)speechify
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- Caleb was a powerful man and knew little of any fear except the fear of hurting others and the fear of having to speechify .
- He never missed a chance of speechifying in public.
- They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull.