Crossword-Solution: ELOCUTION 9 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Elocution n. Utterance by speech.
Elocution n. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces
of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in
public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
Elocution n. Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent
diction.

We have 14 clues for the answer “ELOCUTION”

Clue Answers
Training for public speaking. 1 answer
What 'Enry 'Iggins tutors Eliza Doolittle in 1 answer
What Henry taught Eliza 1 answer
Art of public speaking 2 answers
enunciation 10 answers
pronunciation 10 answers
AN EXPERT MANNER OF SPEAKING INVOLVING CONTROL OF VOICE AND GESTURE 11 answers
Inflection 24 answers
Eloquence 34 answers
Oratory 44 answers
Vocalisation 51 answers
articulation 71 answers
Delivery 72 answers
Declamation 80 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ELOCUTION (5)

Truth is not required of us either, although most judges attempt to keep the elocution within the bounds of propriety.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
But I had so grossly overshot the mark that I suppose it took me two good miles of road and half an hour of elocution to persuade him I had been in earnest.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Everybody will laugh, and it'll spoil everything.” With the rather startled elocution teacher backing her she rehearsed the bashful Albert in that kiss until she had achieved the effect of realism that she thought the scene demanded.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
The distance also is so great that it needs a man with a fine voice and a knowledge of elocution to make himself heard in the choir; and according to long usage the Canons of Tercanbury are chosen for their learning rather than for any qualities which might be of use in a cathedral church.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995
But O, sirs, sirs! for the day of the Lord’s anger!’ His rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution, and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with ELOCUTION (3)

Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds thatthe dorms and classrooms can'taccommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. Th…
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter... having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you w…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–2012).