Definition of "elocutionist" [el•o•cu•tion•ist]

• Someone who practices or teaches elocution. (noun)

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• "Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all."
• "Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN needs a little practice sometimes."
• "Twenty years ago when I was lecturing in America and I read a number of my poems to some audience in one of the eastern states, a woman asked from the end of the hall—I found afterwards that she was a professional elocutionist—‘Why do you read your poetry in that manner, Mr Yeats?’"