(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid
pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination
(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration / (noun) a highly rhetorical speech
(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a portent / (adjective) eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious / (adjective) being a grave or serious matter / (adjective) self-consciously solemn or important; pompous / (adjective) ponderously excessive