diction
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Elle Vosque, Catrin Feelings, Bones and Silllexa Diction were put through their paces one last time.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
Diction harking back to a more genteel era.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015
By the final, American set he sang Ives’s “The Things Our Fathers Loved” with straightforward ease, giving the music a kind of luminosity, without recourse to what I might term capital-D Diction.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2014
The Thoughts must be clear and just, and noble, and the Diction or Expression suited to them.
From Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Hooker, Edward N.
But if notwithstanding this great Advantage, Virgil's Diction and Versification be preferable to Homer's; his Glory for That very Reason will be so much the greater.
From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph
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