Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person versed in the art of elocution; one who teaches or writes upon elocution, or who gives public elocutionary readings or exercises.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery
Examples
“Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.”
“Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN needs a little practice sometimes.”
The Huffington Post: Sara Benincasa: Michele Bachmann Meets the Press
“Twenty years ago when I was lecturing in America and I read a number of my poems to some audience in one of the eastern states, a woman asked from the end of the hall—I found afterwards that she was a professional elocutionist—‘Why do you read your poetry in that manner, Mr Yeats?’”
“I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.”
“Actually George C. Scott sounds a lot like an Ulster Presbyterian who has lost his faith, moved to England to make his fortune, and taken lessons from an elocutionist, only to quit halfway through the course because he decided it was a waste of money.”
“Reporters from area newspapers were now well aware of the “wealthy elocutionist from Ayer and her choreman,” as one paper described them.”
“Aiming for a career as an elocutionist or public reader, Puffer graduated with honors in 1893.”
“Howells repeated his withdrawal wish in a telegram—sent in care of the “elocutionist.””
“And even the aitchless millionaire, though sometimes he goes to an elocutionist and leams a B.B.C. accent, seldom succeeds in disguising himself as completely as he would like to.”
“A “lady elocutionist” who recited Kipling and imitated children.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘elocutionist’.
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open list: the art of talking
Words that describe people who are identified by a specific variety of speech. This list was inspired by the discussion at anecdotalist.
anecdotalist, conversationalist, fabulist, mythomaniac, speechifier, gaffeur, bullshit artist, preacher, witticist, raconteur, storyteller, liar and 29 more...
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November
irresolute, obsequious, truculent, palliative, salvo, troubadour, elocutionist, pseudepigraphy, abattoir, repudiate, impugn, vitiated and 3 more...
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