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Definition of elocution in English: elocutionnoun ˌɛləˈkjuːʃ(ə)nˌɛləˈkjuʃ(ə)n mass noun1The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation. lessons in singing and elocution Example sentencesExamples - Barbara remembers the dedicated teaching of the nuns at the Catholic schools she attended, and the emphasis on training in singing, and the extra lessons in piano and elocution for those who could afford the extra fees.
- The week-long celebrations, which commenced on Monday last, included contests in quiz, elocution, dance, singing, mono action and hand-writing, besides a number of sports and games.
- It's a fascinating process in and of itself, a skill of elocution mixed with a keen sense of observation.
- Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution, but the piece would be well served by tighter direction and fewer generalizations about gender in the comedic bits.
- Many members of the learned professions display great felicity of illustration and fluency of elocution, surprising us with the quickness of their parts, who nevertheless are felt to be neither impressive nor profound.
- Competitions will be held in elocution, essay and painting for students from schools following the State, CBSE and ICSE syllabus.
- Did you know that Britain's ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher trained to lower the pitch of her voice and improve her elocution so that she would sound more authoritative?
- Another of Roberts' fans, while filming, was Gay Harden, who portrays a teacher of speech, elocution and poise.
- But here the roles are reversed, with Susannah York's money-grabbing socialite as the teacher in matters of elocution and manners.
- BBC World always seems to have over-educated experts explaining, with beautiful elocution, something utterly insane.
- If that's not enough to make you jealous she also has the option of becoming an elocution teacher, as if she would ever need it, having achieved a gold medal for elocution from the London Academy of Dramatic Art and Music.
- This glitch has it's up-side, because if I can feel like that, then I imagine that's what my own elocution did to my childhood attackers - their resentment was likely borne of a sense of inferiority and discomfort.
- With this in mind it was decided to open the Powley Academy of Excellence (rumour has it there's an unprecedented attendance at the school with classes in self betterment and elocution completely booked out).
- Settelen made videotapes of her practicing elocution and formal speechmaking with him, presumably to improve her performance as a public figure.
- Right from his student days at the Sethupathi Higher Secondary School, he showed keen interest in elocution and essay writing competitions.
- Participants will contest in light music, elocution, clay modelling, painting, group dance, fancy dress, group song and quiz events of the arts section.
- There was also quite a strong emphasis on sports, particularly track and field events like javelin throwing, shot putt, sprinting, and cross-country running as well as basic fencing technique and classes in elocution.
- The students also participated in various events such as fashion designing, cooking without fire, hair styling, embroidery, vegetable carving, clay modelling, debate, elocution and drama.
- Authors of conduct manuals saw elocution as a skill to enhance the home, for reading aloud was regarded as an activity well suited to the woman's role in the domestic sphere.
- Let us be clear that this is a spiritual experience and has nothing to do with fine elocution or educated diction.
Synonyms pronunciation, enunciation, articulation, diction, speech, voice production, intonation, voicing, vocalization, modulation phrasing, delivery, utterance, fluency public speaking, oratory, speech-making, declamation - 1.1 A particular style of speaking.
Example sentencesExamples - On Sundays he preached a morning sermon, with his peculiar elocution and exaggerated use of bodily and facial gesture.
- Certainly the cast are up to the haughty elocution and aristocratic manner demanded by their roles.
- Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
- She was educated by British nuns who insisted on public-school elocution, and there you are yet again.
- Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution.
Derivatives adjective ɛləˈkjuːʃ(ə)n(ə)riˌɛləˈkjuʃəˌnɛri Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting. Example sentencesExamples - Its relatively stable set of themes, motifs, generic forms, and elocutionary devices invites an inclusive study that, Gordon Braden rightly notes, eludes our grasp.
- It is discourse stripped of meaning, an elocutionary fragment that represents a form of expression that, at that time, was already referred to as ‘trance, hypnotic, or intentionless’ music.
- The elocutionary movement that pervaded both academic and popular spheres of nineteenth-century rhetorical life actually began some decades before, in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
- The pure work implies the elocutionary disappearance of the poet.
noun ɛləˈkjuːʃ(ə)nɪstˌɛləˈkjuʃ(ə)nəst Such a criterion has been used by elocutionists and others in attempts to ‘improve’ speech, but without great success: spoken usage that is too ‘prosy’ sounds artificial and perhaps pretentious. Example sentencesExamples - Ironically, standards of oral pronunciation and bodily gesture central to the mission of the elocutionists were disseminated through works of print.
- But the elocutionists, like the rest of the New Rhetorical movement, were doing more than simply borrowing the status of the classical tradition as a foundation for their work.
- I remember in particular one extremely talented girl - a gifted elocutionist and actor.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting oratorical or literary style): from Latin elocutio(n-), from eloqui 'speak out' (see eloquence). ventriloquist from mid 17th century: Ventriloquists speak with their belly—the word is based on Latin venter ‘belly’ and loqui ‘to speak’, from which elocution (early 16th century), eloquent (Late Middle English), and loquacious (late 17th century) also derive. Originally a ventriloquist was a person appearing to speak from their abdomen because of spiritual possession. For someone who practises the skill for public entertainment it dates from just before 1800.
Rhymes ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution Definition of elocution in US English: elocutionnounˌeləˈkyo͞oSH(ə)nˌɛləˈkjuʃ(ə)n 1The skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation. lessons in singing and elocution Example sentencesExamples - Let us be clear that this is a spiritual experience and has nothing to do with fine elocution or educated diction.
- This glitch has it's up-side, because if I can feel like that, then I imagine that's what my own elocution did to my childhood attackers - their resentment was likely borne of a sense of inferiority and discomfort.
- The students also participated in various events such as fashion designing, cooking without fire, hair styling, embroidery, vegetable carving, clay modelling, debate, elocution and drama.
- Many members of the learned professions display great felicity of illustration and fluency of elocution, surprising us with the quickness of their parts, who nevertheless are felt to be neither impressive nor profound.
- It's a fascinating process in and of itself, a skill of elocution mixed with a keen sense of observation.
- With this in mind it was decided to open the Powley Academy of Excellence (rumour has it there's an unprecedented attendance at the school with classes in self betterment and elocution completely booked out).
- BBC World always seems to have over-educated experts explaining, with beautiful elocution, something utterly insane.
- Did you know that Britain's ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher trained to lower the pitch of her voice and improve her elocution so that she would sound more authoritative?
- But here the roles are reversed, with Susannah York's money-grabbing socialite as the teacher in matters of elocution and manners.
- The week-long celebrations, which commenced on Monday last, included contests in quiz, elocution, dance, singing, mono action and hand-writing, besides a number of sports and games.
- Another of Roberts' fans, while filming, was Gay Harden, who portrays a teacher of speech, elocution and poise.
- Participants will contest in light music, elocution, clay modelling, painting, group dance, fancy dress, group song and quiz events of the arts section.
- Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution, but the piece would be well served by tighter direction and fewer generalizations about gender in the comedic bits.
- Settelen made videotapes of her practicing elocution and formal speechmaking with him, presumably to improve her performance as a public figure.
- There was also quite a strong emphasis on sports, particularly track and field events like javelin throwing, shot putt, sprinting, and cross-country running as well as basic fencing technique and classes in elocution.
- If that's not enough to make you jealous she also has the option of becoming an elocution teacher, as if she would ever need it, having achieved a gold medal for elocution from the London Academy of Dramatic Art and Music.
- Barbara remembers the dedicated teaching of the nuns at the Catholic schools she attended, and the emphasis on training in singing, and the extra lessons in piano and elocution for those who could afford the extra fees.
- Authors of conduct manuals saw elocution as a skill to enhance the home, for reading aloud was regarded as an activity well suited to the woman's role in the domestic sphere.
- Right from his student days at the Sethupathi Higher Secondary School, he showed keen interest in elocution and essay writing competitions.
- Competitions will be held in elocution, essay and painting for students from schools following the State, CBSE and ICSE syllabus.
Synonyms pronunciation, enunciation, articulation, diction, speech, voice production, intonation, voicing, vocalization, modulation - 1.1 A particular style of speaking.
Example sentencesExamples - On Sundays he preached a morning sermon, with his peculiar elocution and exaggerated use of bodily and facial gesture.
- She was educated by British nuns who insisted on public-school elocution, and there you are yet again.
- Certainly the cast are up to the haughty elocution and aristocratic manner demanded by their roles.
- Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
- Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting oratorical or literary style): from Latin elocutio(n-), from eloqui ‘speak out’ (see eloquence). |