elocution
noun
a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public.
elocutionist
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a word derived from
elocution.
Example Sentences
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In February 1891, the Washington representative of Baldy’s Baltimore-based company — one Robert E. Clarke, himself a former elocutionist — suddenly disappeared, leaving behind an empty safe.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022
In an effort to erase the stigma of non-R.P. speech, England’s original national elocutionist, Thomas Sheridan, urged all citizens to adopt the accent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
And its finest men of letters – including Hume, Adam Smith and James Boswell – were so ashamed of their native tongue they hired an elocutionist to purge "Scotticisms" from their speech.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010
When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then a humorist told some of his own funny stories and an elocutionist recited a bit from Shakespeare effectively.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose
