Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Readiness of speech; eloquence.
- Ready of speech; eloquent; fluent.
- Also
facundious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Eloquent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
eloquent ,articulate
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Examples
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“The only difficulty, gracious countess, has been to know where to fix the wandering choice of my bewildered eyes, where all alike are fair, and all alike facund.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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"The only difficulty, gracious countess, has been to know where to fix the wandering choice of my bewildered eyes, where all alike are fair, and all alike facund."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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But when he witnessed the sad sufferings of the English language in the throat, palate, tongue, and beautiful teeth of Mr. Johns, as it was slowly and stammeringly uttered, he would wonder still more wherein lay his resemblance to the facund Mercury.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
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