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Another word for elocution

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elocution

n.

Speech training
voice culture, dramatic reading, declamation, art of oral expression, oratory, rhetoric.
Manner of speaking
delivery, locution, articulation; see delivery 3, speech 2.

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Another word for elocution

noun

The art of public speaking:

declamation, oratory, rhetoric. See words

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I need more training in order to improve my elocution.
Prince Vasili himself, famed for his elocution, was to read it.
With a patience foreign to his impulsive nature, he submitted to minute drill in elocution, and became a fluent extemporaneous speaker.
He was a student at the Harvard law school from 1837 to 1840, and from January 1839 to February 1840 he was also an instructor in elocution in the college.
He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical style of elocution.

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