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ineloquent, a.|ɪnˈɛləkwənt|
[f. in-3 + eloquent: cf. F. inéloquent (16th c. in Littré).]
Not eloquent, void of eloquence.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 42 The audyence falleth, for werynes of his ineloquent langage, fast on slepe. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 219 Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent. 1818Southey in Q. Rev. XIX. 52 He quotes the old man's honest and not ineloquent exhortation. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. v, The ineloquent Brindley, behold he has chained seas together.
Hence inˈeloquently adv., in an ineloquent manner; without eloquence.
1828in Webster. 1865J. Hullah Transit. Period Music 119 Rameau..declared, very ineloquently no doubt, but very decisively, that it was the work of two hands, the one an artist, the other an utter ignoramus. |