ore rotundo

comparative more ore rotundo · superlative most ore rotundo

1. datedSpoken in an eloquent, clear, and confident manner.

   The politenesses of Conrad to James and of James to Conrad were of the most impressive kind. Even if they had been addressing each other from the tribune of the Académie Française their phrases could not have been more elaborate or delivered more ore rotundo.

   1931, Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday: Reminiscences of James, Conrad, & Crane

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   Only when we hear the English language spoken ore rotundo — and it is an exceedingly rare experience, and fated to be ever rarer as our life grows more rapid — by some master of the art of elocution and that is a fine art truly — can one be sensible of the richness and sweetness of its tones, the gravity and majesty with which it can invest noble and solemn themes, or its graceful themes, or its graceful unbending in the Lydian mode.

   1901, Joseph Fitzgerald, Word and Phrase, A.C. McClurg & Company, page 371

   Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn at the end of it that he didn't know what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like what deacons used to be'. And he, mind you, was in his twenties, and claimed, ore rotundo, to be a Whitmanite, a Shavian, and a socialist.

   1911 February, Cornelia A. P. Comer, “A Letter to the Rising Generation”, in The Atlantic

comparative more ore rotundo · superlative most ore rotundo

1. datedDelivered ore rotundo.

   They can almost all turn a sentence well, rhyme when they choose, or make a fine ore rotundo speech, echoed by the apoiados of their companions.

   1857, Daniel Parish Kidder, J. C. Fletcher, Brazil and the brazilians, portrayed in Historical and descriptive sketches, Childs & Peterson, page 181

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   The florid verbosity which characterised the ore rotundo style of Dr. Johnson; the polished sentences of Addison, whose smoothly gliding periods might almost have been set to music—have been gradually giving way to a more nervous and rhetorically perfect style.

   1848, The United States Democratic Review, volume 22, J.& H.G. Langley, page 410

   He was pretty well informed on the life of the author of the book he was selling, as well as the contents of his book, and would deliver in a most ore rotundo style selections from it.

   1921, Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society, volume 2, The Society, page 297

1. datedhistoricaluncountableThe practice of speaking ore rotundo.

   In this description of his own style, the only stylistic term Persius copies wholesale from Horace is the idea of the ore rotundo, the rounded expression, of AP 324.

   2015, Shadi Bartsch, Persius, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 147

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   Assuredly the ore rotundo of the Greeks, praised so much by the Latin, did not consist in such uncouth diphthongal articulations which their authors gravely assert to be imitated from dogs, sheep horses, and other brutes.

   1851, Christophoros Plato Castanis, The Greek Exile, Lippincott, Grambo, & Company, page 233

   No longer are they carnal and speak as men, but a whine, a broken hum-haw, an ore rotundo, or some other graceless mode of noise-making, is adopted, to prevent all suspicion of being natural and speaking out of the abundance of the heart.

   1875, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to my students, Passmore and Alabaster, page 119