home-speaking
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
- 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- 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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “home-speaking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)