Definition of Stump speech

1. Noun. Political oratory.

Generic synonyms: Oratory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stump Speech

stumers
stuming
stumm
stummed
stummel
stummels
stummick
stumming
stump
stump camera
stump dump
stump orator
stump orators
stump powder
stump powders
stump speech (current term)
stump spud
stump up
stumpage
stumpages
stumped
stumper
stumpers
stumpflite
stumpier
stumpies
stumpiest
stumpily
stumpiness
stumping

Literary usage of Stump speech

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... ushered into the Senate to take the oath of office and to make the usual brief address. He was plainly intoxicated and delivered a stump speech unworthy ..."

2. One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose: Both New and Old by Nathaniel Kirk Richardson (1866)
"... composed the pall Fairly and quietly, and left him there As if his rest had been a breathing sleep! A RACY stump speech. FRIENDS and fellow-citizens, ..."

3. The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock by Robert Digges Wimberly Connor, Clarence Hamilton Poe (1912)
"CHAPTER VIII AYCOCK ON THE HUSTINGS (A Typical Campaign stump speech, 1910.) Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEN I was in this county in 1900, ..."

4. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Robert Kempt, Joe Miller (1865)
"ANDREW JACKSON was once making a stump speech out West in a small village. Just as he was concluding amen, Kendall, who sat behind him, whispered, ..."

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