elocutionist
Example Sentences
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I did not, for example, expect: national elocutionists, Kim Kardashian’s vocal fry, the last Vatican castrato, the telling silence of lizards, Alexa or the delightful, data-based revelation that humans can reliably hear a smile.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
On Sundays, she was the favorite lector at our church, reading the liturgy with an elegance instilled by her mother and grandmother, both trained elocutionists.
From New York Times • May 6, 2016
Last week an anonymous correspondent at Tampa, Fla., reported as a news feature that local cigar-makers had hired elocutionists to read to them and distract them from thinking while at work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latest and best book for family reading, for teachers, elocutionists, orators, after-dinner speakers, and actors.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
He was acquainted with one of these elocutionists, and was taking me to his room.
From With The Eyes Shut 1898 by Bellamy, Edward
