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Speech offering worship putting a daughter off (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oration

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'speech' is the definition.
(oration is a kind of speech)

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(Other definitions for oration that I've seen before include "lecture" , "Ontario (anag)" , "words" , "Power of speech" , "Making a speech" .)

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