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adj. - Oratorically impassioned and moving.

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Usage examples (18)
  • Fawcett, they never did exhibit the pathetic importunity and Demosthenic fervor of Baxter.
  • In some of the Demosthenic speeches of doubtful authenticity parrhesia is most emphatically the right of the Athenian citizen.
  • As already indicated, I was conscious of no mean alloy of the Demosthenic gold tempering the baser metal of my general composition.
  • It is true, we had not any long oration denouncing the absentees, the cabinet council, or any other set of men; but there was not a man present that at one hour and seventeen...
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