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Meanings of diction in English

Portuguese
dicção
Catalan
verbositat

The manner in which something is expressed in words.

dicção
Portuguese
dicção
Catalan
dicció

The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience.

dicção
Usage of diction in English
1
They are tender in feeling, musical in verse, and pure in diction.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
2
The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard.
The Devil's Dictionary
3
The solution of this problem lies in the proper study of diction.
The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing
4
Was the mannered diction mostly down to English being her second language?
The Guardian
5
Thou thinkest Marie-Antoinette commanded the nobility of France with her good diction?
Seven Surrenders
6
The image is beautiful; but the diction is elaborately intricate, rhetorically indistinct.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) / The Catholic Reac...
7
The diction of poetry is the same as the diction of oratory.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance / A Study of Rhetorical T...
8
The expansiveness of the heart would naturally communicate itself to the diction.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 / A Maga...
9
She had a perfect diction; it was a delight to hear her.
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
10
The distinguishing feature of his poetry is the ease of its diction.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
11
The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
12
We say foreboding because in this case it is not mistaken diction.
The Blind Spot
13
Although born in Sweden she has achieved remarkable mastery of English diction.
Jerusalem
14
Ione stared straight into his eyes, speaking in a clear precise diction.
The Reality Dysfunction
15
The original was all her own-herown happy thoughts and gentle diction.
Sense and Sensibility
16
I can recollect better my father's diction than I can my father.
The Guardian
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Diction across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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