Verb
To extend or offer, propose.
Usage- Transitive
To talk at great length.
Usage- Intransitive
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I bestrode the courtroom entranceway, holding forth on my merits to the assembled press.
Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.
More examples (3)
The girls all liked to hear him talk. They often gathered in a little circle while he sat on a bench, and held forth to them, laughing.
[…]they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans.
Warmed to the woman somewhat, I admit it. She holds forth like a man and smokes myrrhy cigarettes through a rhino-horn holder.
Verb
talk at length and formally about a topic
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The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England