Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Forcible and efficacious speaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Direct,
forcible , andeffective speaking .
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Examples
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This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
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