ore rotundo
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Instead of it we have a hybrid combination of Lutheran doctrine and Reformed practice, and we distribute our absolution ore rotundo over mixed congregations on Sunday mornings and at the Preparatory Service.
From The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by George Wenner
By and by, M. Charpentier came in, who is more voluble, more ore rotundo, grandiose, than M. Belloc.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
As an orator, his eloquence was of the ore rotundo order; as a writer, his periods were singularly Johnsonian.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
If there was this difference between the Aberdeen and the Forfar dialect, how much greater must be that difference when contrasted with the ore rotundo language of an English southern dignitary.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
The few phrases of Italian which he had appropriated were given forth ore rotundo, with Anglo-saxon emphasis on the o's, and accompanied with large gestures.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
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