conversationist

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As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose;—or the reverse of this may be true.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

H——, "the Judge,"—cool-headed, warm-hearted, compassionate, irascible, liberal, witty, easy speaker and fine conversationist, with an inexhaustible fund of sense, anecdote, candor, and good heart.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

The ornate and well-rounded periods of the conversationist are not more in request, nowadays, than were the high-sounding sentiments of Joseph Surface to Sir Peter Teazle, when experience had shown him their emptiness.

From Modern Society by Howe, Julia Ward

Tibby, who was no conversationist, gave her every opportunity for meditation.

From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

On the other hand, Dr. Fitzedward Hall says: "As for conversationist and conversationalist, agriculturist and agriculturalist, as all are alike legitimate formations, it is for convention to decide which we are to prefer."

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly