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- noun Plural form of
elocutionist .
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Examples
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And it was about midnight last night and I'd finally finished revising my chapter on shibboleths and elocutionists and I picked up another volume by Terry Pratchett but I've temporarily stalled on that Hogfather: excellent; Maskerade: minor but entertaining; Thief of Time: I like that Susan character but book didn't live up to Hogfather standard; Interesting Times, too goofy to be really enjoyable.
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And it was about midnight last night and I'd finally finished revising my chapter on shibboleths and elocutionists and I picked up another volume by Terry Pratchett but I've temporarily stalled on that Hogfather: excellent; Maskerade: minor but entertaining; Thief of Time: I like that Susan character but book didn't live up to Hogfather standard; Interesting Times, too goofy to be really enjoyable.
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Politicians, public speakers, aspiring writers, actors, elocutionists, singers, inventors (most of them he had never seen or heard of) cheerfully asked him for a recommendation as to their abilities and projects.
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It had long been obvious (even to elocutionists) that circumstance could aggravate the disorder—for example, Oskar Guttmann (an elocutionist) had warned in 1893 that “nothing is more adapted to promote stuttering than terror and fear.”
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The elocutionists and the parlayers of gimmick cures held sway.
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The elocutionists and the parlayers of gimmick cures held sway.
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Overall, speech therapy in England and America fell into the hands of elocutionists, who relied on respiratory, vocal, and articulatory drills.
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It had long been obvious (even to elocutionists) that circumstance could aggravate the disorder—for example, Oskar Guttmann (an elocutionist) had warned in 1893 that “nothing is more adapted to promote stuttering than terror and fear.”
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Overall, speech therapy in England and America fell into the hands of elocutionists, who relied on respiratory, vocal, and articulatory drills.
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But as we are no great elocutionists, or at all well conversant with the mysteries of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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