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rhetoric
noun
1 rhetoric
Using language effectively to please or persuade.
Polish: retoryczność
2 rhetoric
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness.
Roget 582:
speech,
faculty of speech;
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle;
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration;
speechifying;
soliloquy
etc.
589;
allocution
etc.
586;
conversation
etc.
588;
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory;
elocution,
eloquence;
rhetoric,
declamation;
grandiloquence,
multiloquence†;
burst of eloquence;
facundity†;
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language;
copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech,
gift of the gab;
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v.;
spokesman;
prolocutor,
interlocutor;
mouthpiece,
Hermes;
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress†;
Demosthenes,
Cicero;
rhetorician;
stump orator,
platform orator;
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
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Dutch: grootspraak, megalomanie
Polish: grandilokwencja
3 rhetoric
4 rhetoric
Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).
Dutch: redekunde
Polish: retoryka
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