Eloquence

Definition: Eloquence

Eloquence

Noun

1. Powerful and effective language.

Date "eloquence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Eloquence

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Eloquence

Synonym: fluency (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Eloquence

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Speech	Phrase: quoth he, said he; "action is eloquence"; "pour the full tide of eloquence along"; "she speaks poignards and every word stabs"; "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.
	Oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi.
Vigor	Eloquence; command of words, command of language.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Eloquence

English words defined with "eloquence": architecture, articulately ♦ Disertitude ♦ eloquently ♦ Facound, Facundity, force ♦ Impediment in speech, inarticulately, ineloquently ♦ Native turkey ♦ Trivium ♦ What. (references)

Specialty definitions using "eloquence": Acacetus ♦ Compulsion ♦ Eloquent ♦ Friend of Man ♦ Hair-Splitting, Highland Bail, HP-SUX ♦ Linsey-woolsy Million ♦ Mercurial Finger, Mercurius ♦ O'Doherty, Orator, orphan ♦ Sadi, Single-Speech Hamilton, Spellbinders ♦ Water-Poet. (references)

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Modern Usage: Eloquence

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There is more eloquence in a sugar-touch of them than in the tongues of the French Council. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) Not a subject on which much eloquence is possible. (Ideal Husband, An; writing credit: Oscar Wilde; Oliver Parker)
Lyrics	Reliving in our eloquence ("Same Old Lang Syne"; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) And when their eloquence escapes me ("De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"; performing artist: The Police)
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Commercial Usage: Eloquence

Domain	Title
Books	Choosing Powerful Words: Eloquence That Works (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series) (reference) Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking (reference) Epitaphs: A Dictionary of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence (reference) Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha (reference) The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Eloquence by Wind Chimes (reference) Eloquence (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Eloquence

Author	Quotation
Blaise Pascal	Continued eloquence is wearisome.
Edgar Quinet	Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Edward G. Bulwer-lytton	The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld	True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Frederick W. Faber	Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Marcus T. Cicero	Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Pope Pius Ii	A mighty thing is eloquence . . . nothing so much rules the world.
Shakespeare	Action is eloquence; the eyers of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.
William Shakespeare	O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Eloquence

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Eloquence

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Eloquence

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	The Declaration of Independence flames with his eloquence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Eloquence

"Eloquence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eloquence" is used about 122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	122	29,069

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eloquence

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
eloquence	20
eloquence match nul	4
eloquence eti	3
21st century eloquence	2
lunt eloquence	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eloquence

Language		Translations for "eloquence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gojëtari (oratory). (various references)

Arabic		‏فصاحة (fluency, pureness, rhetoric), ‏طلاقة (fluency, freedom, glibness, volubility), ‏بيان بلاغة (rhetoric), ‏بلاغة (figurative language, rhetoric). (various references)

Bulgarian		сладкодумство (mellifluence), красноречие (oratory). (various references)

Chinese		辯才 , 雄辩 (Eloquent), 口才 . (various references)

Czech		výmluvnost (oratory), dar jazyka. (various references)

Finnish		kaunopuheisuus (oratory). (various references)

French		éloquence. (various references)

German		beredsamkeit (talkativeness). (various references)

Greek		ευγλωττία (elocution, eloquent). (various references)

Hebrew		אמ� ות �"�"בור (oratory, rhetoric), צחות לשון. (various references)

Hungarian		ékesszólás (elocution, oratory), szónoki képesség (oratory). (various references)

Indonesian		kepandaian berbicara, fasihat. (various references)

Italian		eloquenza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		雄弁 (oratory). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たつべ�", ぜっぽう (tongue), くち� っしゃ (glibness), べ�"さい (oratorical talent, payment, settlement), のうべ�" (oratory), かいべ�" (defecation), �"うべ�" (fluency, pleading, protest, refutation), ゆうべ�" (oratory). (various references)

Korean		능변 (Eloquent). (various references)

Manx		loayrtalys, jesh-focklaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		eloquenceay

Portuguese		eloquência (oratory), fugir (abscond, bolt, break away, bunk, decamp, disjoin, dispersion, dodge, elude, escape, flee, fleece, fleet, get away, get back at, Lam, make off, retreat, run, run away, scoot, up and away). (various references)

Romanian		elocvenţã (oratory, speaking, utterance), elocinţã (emphasis, oratory, rhetoric), oratorie (elocution, rhetoric). (various references)

Russian		красноречие (declamation, oratory). (various references)

Scottish		ùrlabhairt (oratory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rečitost (wordiness). (various references)

Spanish		elocuencia (fluency). (various references)

Swedish		vältalighet (oratory). (various references)

Turkish		konuşma sanatı (declamation, elocution), güzel söz söyleme sanatı, belagat, çene (chap, chin, chinwag, chitchat, chop, gab, glass jaw, jaw, jawbone, jowl, mandible). (various references)

Ukranian		риторика (oratory, rhetoric), красномовність (elocution). (various references)

Welsh		huodledd, cymhendod (affectation, knowledge, proficiency, tidiness), aches (flood, tide). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Eloquence

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	disertitudinem, eloquentia, eloqui, eloquia, eloquii, eloquio, eloquium, loquacitas, oratio, oratione, orationem, orationes, orationi, orationibus, orationis. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Eloquence

Derivations
	Words beginning with "eloquence": eloquences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eloquence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elequence, eliquence, eloqence, eloquece, eloquency, eloqunce. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Eloquence"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "eloquence" (pronounced e"lukwuns)
6	-u k w u n s	consequence.
5	-k w u n s	sequence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
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Anagrams: Eloquence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-l-n-o-q-u"
	-3 letters: cloque, coulee.
	-4 letters: clone, leone, ounce, queen, uncle.
	-5 letters: clon, clue, cole, cone, enol, leno, lone, luce, lune, noel, once, unco.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-l-n-o-q-u"
	+1 letter: eloquences.
	+3 letters: equipollence.
	+4 letters: equipollences.
	+5 letters: nonequivalence.
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