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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eloquent
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 to the doctor than my hon. Friend has just paid.
▪ It is a world in which the grimace is often more eloquent than the phrase.
▪ A more eloquent statement of unrealism would be hard to devise, writes Edward Steen.
most
▪ One of the most eloquent critics has been a conservative writer, Charles Murray.
▪ Oddly, it was men who'd left the active priesthood to marry who were most eloquent about celibacy.
▪ Perhaps the most eloquent opponent was Patrick Henry in Virginia.
▪ The most eloquent witness to this fact is Maxse's old ally Bridgeman.
▪ Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.
▪ Your work should be your most eloquent argument.
▪ That was about the longest conversation I ever had with him: Fritz at his most eloquent and long-winded.
■ NOUN
testimony
▪ Their very insistence of trying to make sense is eloquent testimony to assumptions that are powerful though silent.
▪ The mountaintop offers eloquent testimony on all of this, for nothing there grows for ever.
▪ Mr. Griffiths I could not pay a more eloquent testimony to the doctor than my hon. Friend has just paid.
▪ And the stridency of those who argue otherwise bears eloquent testimony to that fact.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wax sentimental/eloquent/lyrical etc
▪ Before waxing lyrical about types of communication we need firstly to appreciate the uniqueness of the hotel environment.
▪ In the pub, beer glass in hand, he waxed lyrical about how he would spend his earnings.
▪ Marie Claire devoted last October's issue to the disease, and carried photos of topless celebrities waxing lyrical about their assets.
▪ Only don't wax sentimental over their hospitality, just thinking of it gives me indigestion.
▪ Second, it was the theological uses of mathematics on which Bacon waxed eloquent.
▪ They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.
▪ You're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads.
▪ You didn't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Few will forget his eloquent defence of individual freedom.
▪ He gave an eloquent speech after dinner.
▪ She was an eloquent speaker, able to move and inspire audiences.
▪ The poem is full of eloquent phrases about the beauty of nature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Archbishop Ralph's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect.
▪ At the press conference next morning, there was eloquent body-language.
▪ Aunt Margaret presided over the table with placid contentment, urging them to eat with eloquent movements of the eyes and hands.
▪ It's often said that the world wants to silence the eloquent.
▪ Justice Brennan offered an extraordinarily eloquent and diplomatic response.
▪ Maybe I was more eloquent than I thought.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eloquent

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.]

  1. Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.

    O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love.
    --Pope.

  2. Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eloquent

late 14c., from Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquentem (nominative eloquens) "speaking, having the faculty of speech; eloquent," present participle of eloqui "to speak out" (see eloquence). Related: Eloquently.

Wiktionary
eloquent

a. 1 fluently persuasive and articulate 2 effective in expressing meaning by speech

WordNet
eloquent

adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]

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.