elocutionist

plural elocutionists

1. Someone who practices or teaches elocution.

   Melville Bell's father, Alexander Bell, had been a famous elocutionist and stage reciter.

   1998, Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees, The Real Professor Higgins, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 465

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   Her ability as a recitalist or elocutionist, as she was sometimes called, indicated a possible career on the stage.

   2013, Michael Gnarowski, Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose, Dundurn, →ISBN