home-speaking

noun

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.

Meanings

nounhome-speaking (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableDirect, forcible, and effective speaking.

    Our Saviour , […]was Lord to express his indoctrinating power in what sort himn best seemed ; sometimes by a mild and familiar converse ; sometimes with plain and impartiall home-speaking

    1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
Cite this entry
APA

home-speaking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home-speaking

MLA

“home-speaking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home-speaking. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “home-speaking,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home-speaking.

Source: home-speaking on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.