Noun: eloquence
| Singular | eloquence |
| Plural | eloquences |
Sample Sentences
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speak with eloquence
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express oneself with eloquence
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Thy paleneſſe [var. plainness] moues me more then eloquence,
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And heere chooſe I, ioy be the conſequence! [c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature F2, recto:]
Nouns inflected like eloquence
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English eloquence, from Old French eloquence, from Latin ēloquentia. Doublet of eloquency, directly from Latin. See: Middle English Nouns '
eloquence', Latin Nouns '
ēloquentia'.