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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises recitation; a public reciter of his own or others' compositions.

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Examples

  • True, she found an apt pupil in Mary, and Dorothy was but too glad to accord her the entire triumph, when the recitationist bowed again in response to the hearty applause and retired.

    Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays Margaret Penrose

  • Then, drawing her hand from her muff, she flung it out in a burlesque of the amateur recitationist: --

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • Yvette Gilbert, the songstress of the vile, the recitationist of the vulgar, and Le Loie Fuller, the dancer of the serpentine, live off the fat of the land every day.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • You sometimes hear some bar-room comedian and booze recitationist, who draws a hamfatter's salary in a continuous vaudeville, declare to half drunken listeners that there are good women on the stage.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Salisbury; and dropping his partner by the side of the lady recitationist, he bowed his thanks and hurried to the gallery for a better view.

    Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • But the organist made his profession clear by explaining that the committee had just invited him to oblige the company with a solo on the piano, but that he had been hitting the champagne so hard that he doubted if he could tell the keys from the pedals, and he added that if they'd excuse him he would go to sleep, which he immediately did with his head on the shoulder of the lady recitationist, who tactfully tried not to notice that he was there.

    Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

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