Rhetoric; eloquence.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > rhetoric (10) rhetory?a1500 Rhetoric; eloquence. rhetoric1559 Eloquent, elegant, or ornate language, esp. speech or writing expressed in terms calculated to persuade. Frequently depreciative: language… rope-ripe1584 Learned, elaborately artificial, or bombastic language; rhetoric. Obsolete. inkle-eloquence1774 ? tawdry, shoddy rhetoric. rhetoricianism1842 Poe's word for: excessive floridity or triteness of expression (considered as characteristic of the style of rhetoricians). Subcategories:— use of (2) — rhetorical terms (3) |
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