Word Meanings - ELOQUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out

Additional info about word: ELOQUENCE

1. Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. Hare. 2. Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech. Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Pope. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay. 3. That which is eloquently uttered or written. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Shak. Syn. -- Oratory; rhetoric.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELOQUENCE)

• Elocution
• Oratory
• declamation
• eloquence
• Eloquence
• rhetoric
• elocution

Related words: (words related to ELOQUENCE)

• RHETORICIAN
  1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson. 2. A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had
• ELOCUTIONARY
  Pertaining to elocution.
• ORATORY
  A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the
• ELOQUENCE
  1. Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out
• RHETORICATION
  Rhetorical amplification. Waterland.
• DECLAMATION
  1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with
• RHETORICAL
  Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies
• RHETORIC
  1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose. 2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. Locke. 3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
• ELOCUTIONIST
  One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
• ELOCUTION
  1. Utterance by speech. whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner
• RHETORICATE
  To play the orator. South.
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• MORATORY
  Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• CORROBORATORY
  Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.
• EXPLORATORY
  Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.
• COMMEMORATORY
  Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.
• IRRHETORICAL
  Not rethorical.