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- noun Plural form of
elocution .
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Examples
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Thanks to everyone involved, the movie radiates a hundred pleasures: from LaGravanese's perfect ear for the elocutions of a grammar-school election speech to the surprising orchestrations of Thomas Newman's score to the burnished glow of the cinematography.
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I'm well impressed by all of your superb arguments and perspicacious elocutions, so I shall endeavor to follow suit.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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Yeah, a lot of weird elocutions are acceptable, even treasured, in the South.
"Not only will I won’t quit, I can’t.” Ann Althouse 2008
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~ Songbirds Offer Clues To Highly Practiced Motor Skills In Humans -- The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood.
Speedlinking 12/27/07 William Harryman 2007
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He loved conversation, and I could always learn from him -- especially through the way he pitched his thought -- his elocutions somehow commenting on the words as he spoke them.
Blog of a Bookslut 2009
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The Collector underscored the need for conducting debates and elocutions on HIV/AIDS in the colleges, so that discussions would take place among the students about the disease.
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