elocutionist

In 1884 she was in Salt Lake City, performing as an “elocutionist.”

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.

The candidates sounded like 19th-century elocutionists telling plucky Horatio Alger stories.

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.

He has an elocutionist's sense of people's diction.