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ELOCUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elocution mean?
• ELOCUTION (noun)
The noun ELOCUTION has 1 sense:
1. an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
Familiarity information: ELOCUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("elocution" is a kind of...):
delivery; manner of speaking; speech (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)
Derivation:
elocute (declaim in an elocutionary manner)
elocutionary ((used of style of speaking) overly embellished)
elocutionary (of or relating to elocution)
elocutionist (a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery)
Context examples
He was aware that he must not expect a genius in Mr. Rushworth; but as a well-judging, steady young man, with better notions than his elocution would do justice to, he intended to value him very highly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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