ELOQUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eloquence mean? 

• ELOQUENCE (noun)
  The noun ELOQUENCE has 1 sense:

1. powerful and effective language

  Familiarity information: ELOQUENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELOQUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Powerful and effective language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

eloquence; fluency; smoothness

Context example:

his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police

Hypernyms ("eloquence" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Derivation:

eloquent (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively)

 Context examples 

The rugged eloquence with which he spoke, was not devoid of all effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His eloquence is forcible and touching; nor can I hear him, when he relates a pathetic incident or endeavours to move the passions of pity or love, without tears.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Alleyne looked at her in astonishment, for her cheek was flushed, her eyes gleaming, and her whole pose full of eloquence and conviction.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Girls are quick to read such signs and feel their eloquence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Thank Heaven! I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But little had she dared to hope that so much love and eloquence awaited her there.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He selected from the vast mass of detail with an artist's touch, drawing pictures of life that glowed and burned with light and color, injecting movement so that his listeners surged along with him on the flood of rough eloquence, enthusiasm, and power.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)