harangue

From Middle English arang and French harangue, from Old Italian aringa (modern Italian arringa) from aringare (“speak in public”) (modern Italian arringare), from aringo (“public assembly”), from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (*hriggs)[1], akin to Old High German hring (“ring”) (whence German Ring).

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹæŋ/
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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /həˈɹeɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ
• Hyphenation: ha‧rangue

harangue (plural harangues)

1. An impassioned, disputatious public speech.
2. A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written.

   She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.

   The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late.

   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 103:

     But he continued his harangue without waiting for a reply.

• (tirade or rant): admonition, condemnation, criticism, diatribe, polemic, rant, screed, tirade

harangue (third-person singular simple present harangues, present participle haranguing, simple past and past participle harangued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.

   The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 293:

     This picture of her consequence had some effect, for no one loved better to lead than Maria;—and with far more good humour she answered, "I am much obliged to you, Edmund;—you mean very well, I am sure—but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind.—There would be the greatest indecorum I think."

• admonish, berate, lecture

• haranguer

From Middle French harangue (“a public address, public discourse”), from Old Italian aringo (“arena, public square, platform”), from Frankish *hring (“circle, ring”) or Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (hriggs, “ring, circle”), both from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“circle, ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ- (“to turn, bend”), from *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Old High German hring (“circle, ring”), Old English hring (“circle, ring”). Alternative etymology suggests the possibility that the Italian word may be derived from an Old Frankish compound *hari-hring (“circular gathering”, literally “host-ring or army-ring”). More at here, ring.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.ʁɑ̃ɡ/

harangue f (plural harangues)

1. harangue

harangue

1. first-person singular present indicative of haranguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of haranguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of haranguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of haranguer
5. second-person singular imperative of haranguer

• “harangue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).