Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person versed in the art of elocution; one who teaches or writes upon elocution, or who gives public elocutionary readings or exercises.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

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  • noun Someone who practices or teaches elocution.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery

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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.

    Main Street 1920

  • 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.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN needs a little practice sometimes.

    Sara Benincasa: Michele Bachmann Meets the Press Sara Benincasa 2011

  • 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?’

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • 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.

    Archive 2007-06-01 ____Maggie 2007

  • 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.

    Born Today in 1811... ____Maggie 2007

  • 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.

    MESSY KWEZNUZ superversive 2006

  • Reporters from area newspapers were now well aware of the “wealthy elocutionist from Ayer and her choreman,” as one paper described them.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Aiming for a career as an elocutionist or public reader, Puffer graduated with honors in 1893.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Aiming for a career as an elocutionist or public reader, Puffer graduated with honors in 1893.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

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