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eloquent
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Maybe I was more eloquent than I thought. ▪ He said they tend to be more eloquent and more creative because their experiences are mostly singular. ▪ Mr. Griffiths I could not pay a more eloquent testimony ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: facile , fluent , silver , silver-tongued , smooth-spoken ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eloquent \El"o*quent\, a. [F. ['e]loquent, L. eloquens, -entis, p. pr. of eloqui to speak out, declaim; e + loqui to speak. See Loquacious .] Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 fluently persuasive and articulate 2 effective in expressing meaning by speech
Usage examples of eloquent.
He was nearly sixty, a thorough disciple of Epicurus, a heavy player, rich, eloquent, a master of state-craft, highly popular at Genoa, and well acquainted with the hearts of men, and still more so with the hearts of women.
Even if she had said that she loved me as much as I adored her, she would not have been more eloquent, for her words expressed all that can be felt.
The sermon had at first been entrusted to the Reverend Father Agaric, but, in spite of his merits, he was thought unequal to the occasion in zeal and doctrine, and the eloquent Capuchin friar, who for six months had gone through the barracks preaching against the enemies of God and authority, had been chosen in his place.
Upon the Protestant dissenters of England he poured loud and eloquent praise when he was agitating for Roman Catholic emancipation, as the English dissenters gave an ostentatious support to that movement.
Whiteside was regarded as having too much of the clever, eloquent, fiery Irish agitator in his own constitution, not to have some complaisant sympathy with such qualities in his countrymen.
That this change had taken place despite the trauma of the alembic was eloquent testimony to his strength of spirit and the incomprehensible workings of the human mind.
But the apocryphal fable is nonetheless eloquent testimony to the gathering suspicion and hatred directed at the court, which, along with officials in Paris, was held responsible for the plight of the common people.
Her eloquent sighs and sobs soon told the caitiff he had nothing to fear.
Caccini, and these, we may take it, were shared by the other members of the camerata who were engaged in the pursuit of a method of direct, eloquent, dramatic solo expression.
But later, when he slipped from the Palasso by a back stair and met her in the secret room of her empty caza, she was more eloquent.
Who can realize that the workings of that mighty mind have ceased, that the throbbings of that gallant heart are stilled, that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more, and the magic of that eloquent tongue, which spake as spake no other tongue besides, is hushed hushed for ever!
It was the most artless, and at the same time the most eloquent, answer she could possible give.
This priest was an eloquent man, although a theologian, who answered the most difficult religious questions I could put to him.
Study, for instance, manslaughter in Italy, and, although you will find it difficult to isolate one of the factors of criminality from the network of the other circumstances and conditions that produce it, yet there are such eloquent instances of the influence of racial character, that it would be like denying the existence of daylight if one tried to ignore the influence of the ethnical factor on criminality.
Fraulino Jones became eloquent and finally persuaded Cabeza and Cuerpo to become employees.