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For many peace people, church members and third world nations Obama's speeches on Afghanistan and the acceptance of the Nobel prize despite their eloquence was a time of disappointment.

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  1. noun Persuasive, powerful discourse.
  2. noun The skill or power of using such discourse.
  3. noun The quality of persuasive, powerful expression.

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  • He is bred to an admiration of eloquence, the poetic phrase, the splendid picture, life in the grand style; with increasing disgust he finds himself entering a society which, he feels, neither understands nor values any of these things, and which threatens their destruction. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • His graces of manner and conversation continued for years to charm his friends in that placid evening of his life so very different from those stormy days when his eloquence was a menace to British institutions and British connection. —  Lord Elgin
  • For many peace people, church members and third world nations Obama's speeches on Afghanistan and the acceptance of the Nobel prize despite their eloquence was a time of disappointment. —  Latest News from Ekklesia
  • -- eloquence, flatteries, bribes, -- to bring Petersburg to that view. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Yet even to his final sermon, he maintained his preeminence; and in no one discourse of his last years, did he decline into mediocrity, or fail to remind the elder part of his audience of a period when his eloquence was almost superhuman. [ —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
 

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  1. from Middle English eloquence, from Old French eloquence, French éloquence = Provencal eloquencia, eloquensa = Spanish elocuencia = Portuguese eloquencia = Italian eloquenzia (obsolete), eloquenza, from Latin eloquentia, from eloquen(t-)s, eloquent: see eloquent.
 

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/ˈɛləkwəns/
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