Meanings
nounrhetorication (countable and uncountable, plural rhetorications)
plural rhetorications
- countableobsoleteuncountableAn instance of rhetoric, or excessive use of rhetoric
It can scarcely be conceived, that any sensible men should seriously advance such odd fancies, or that they mean any thing more by them than rhetorication and flourish.
1734, Daniel Waterland, The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Asserted
Origin
Compare French rhétorication.
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