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diction

n.

style, expression, wording, phrasing, usage, choice of words, command of language, literary artistry, manner of expression, literary power, locution, rhetoric, fluency, oratory, pronunciation, articulation, enunciation, delivery, elocution, vocabulary, phraseology, verbiage, language, SprachgefÃ¼hl (German), lingo*, gift of gab*; see also eloquence 1, speech 2, wording.

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Another word for diction

noun

Choice of words and the way in which they are used:

parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wordage, wording. See words

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His perfect diction never failed to be commented on.
Clear diction, not a "posh voice", was what was wanted.
Poetic diction describes the range of language used in poems.
Diction employed by the author seems to exaggerate and stretch the truth.
The decision to use an archaic diction might be thought a central part of Spenser's particularly Protestant poetics.

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