All 4 Uses
rhetoric
in
The Killer Angels
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- A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of "Natural and Revealed Religion," successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher.†
Chpt Frwd.rhetoric = the use of (or study of using) words to make a point
- He was thirty-four years old, and on this day one year ago he had been a professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Exercise in rhetoric.†
Chpt 2.4
- Rhetoric, sir.†
Chpt 2.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(rhetoric) the use of (or study of using) words to make a point -- typically implying skillful useRhetoric is used with many connotations. "Effective rhetoric" has a positive connotation, If someone says something is "just rhetoric," they're implying that the words may make a good surface impression, but they are lacking in substance.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)