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What is a funeral oration?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A funeral oration is a speech given at a funeral. It usually gives a sundry of the persons good traits, his life history, his social standing and education and so on. It may also be called a eulogy (a word which comes from the Latin - speaking well (of the dead)).

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