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rhetorician

[ret-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌrɛt əˈrɪʃ ən /


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The reasons, Mercieca explains, were well understood by ancient Greek rhetoricians, for all that's different in our world today.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2020

The term is what Ancient Greek rhetoricians would have called an “exonym”: a term for another group, which signals that the speaker does not belong to it.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2016

King George III was also a major whipping boy for American rhetoricians for decades after the Revolution.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2011

Intriguingly, there was also a direct appeal to the great rhetoricians of antiquity.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2010

Quintilian is a fundamental reference point for Arnauld: ‘Quintilian and all the other rhetoricians, Aristotle and all the philosophers...’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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