rhetoric

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I really must put "anti-war" in scare quotes because, as much as their rhetoric is anti-all-war, celebrities, who have been chirping with the crickets for years regarding Hamas 'continual barrage, and get them to feign outrage for the media.

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  1. noun The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
  2. noun A treatise or book discussing this art.
  3. noun Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.

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  • "Though the rhetoric is about personal and family protection, the real issue is about is auto burglaries." —  Drinkin' the Franklin Kool Aid
  • Regardless of Ahmadinejad's blistering sword rattling, the rhetoric was aimed at Zionism, not Jews, and it is not Iran's foreign policy to wipe anyone off the face of the Earth. —  Army Rumour Service
  • I really must put "anti-war" in scare quotes because, as much as their rhetoric is anti-all-war, celebrities, who have been chirping with the crickets for years regarding Hamas 'continual barrage, and get them to feign outrage for the media. —  Stones Cry Out
  • The spike in Chinese rhetoric is occurring in the middle of the country's celebrations of the lunar new year - traditionally its longest and most important festival. —  IPS Inter Press Service
  • The very founders of the country that allows radical atheists and religion-haters to spout their rhetoric were all "God-fearing" people.
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English rethorik, from Old French rethorique, from Latin rhētoricē, rhētorica, from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē), rhetorical (art), feminine of rhētorikos, rhetorical, from rhētōr, rhetor; see rhetor.

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  1. Early modern English rhetorick, rethoryck; from Middle English retorike, retheryke, retoryke, retoryk (also rethorice, after L. rhetorice), from Old French rhetorique, rectorique, French rhétorique = Provencal rethorica = Spanish retórica = Portuguese rhetorica = Italian retorica, rettorica, from Latin rhetorica (sc. ars), also rhetorice, from Greek ῤητορική (sc. τέχνη), the rhetorical art, feminine of ῤητορικός (later L. rhetoricus), of or pertaining to a speaker or orator, rhetorical, from ῤήτωρ, a speaker, orator: see rhetor.
  2. French rhétorique, from Latin rhetori(cus), rhetorical. See rhetoric, n.
 

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