With reference to speech: the quality of being polished, elegant, or well expressed; eloquence. rare in later use.

Pleasant speech; eloquence, esp. as intended to flatter or deceive.

Elegant or persuasive use of words; eloquence.

The quality of being eloquent, as an attribute of speakers or writers, their utterances or style.

= facund, adj.

In depreciative sense: bad, spurious, bastard, mongrel; as dog eloquence, dog-English, dog-Greek, dog-logic (also dog's logic), dog rhetoric, dog-…

= eloquence, n. 3.

Eloquence, oratory; concrete in plural harangues.

A sweet or pleasing manner of speaking; sweetness of speech. Also: an instance of this.

Pleasing or agreeable speech or manner of speaking.

= main sense.

The quality or state of being articulate; articulateness.