Diction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DICTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the manner of enunciation in speaking, singing, etc.
• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
• the style of enunciation in speaking or singing
• manner of pronouncing words and sounds
• Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer\'s poems.
• the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
• the manner in which something is expressed in words
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• choice and use of words in speech or writing

Words related to DICTION

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Words that contain DICTION

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How to use DICTION in a sentence

• He frames his sentences by the ear, and is only dissatisfied with them when their cadences are ill-distributed, or their diction is too familiar.
• He was as much in love as a man can be, and the seriousness of real attachment gave both grace and dignity to his once awkward diction.
• The Beauty of the Diction is very remarkable in this whole Episode, as I have observed in the sixth Paper of these Remarks the great Judgment with which it was contrived.
• But in both of them there was a splendor of diction and a wealth of coloring quite unknown to the rude mediaeval romances.
• It is also remarkable for its large and impressive style, its rich command of words, and the lofty beauty of its diction.
• The matchless diction of Tennyson has given the less perfect form of the legend a supreme charm and beauty.
• Wordsworth and his friends it is plain that their peculiarities of diction are things of choice, and not of accident.
• He tells us, that the first beauty of an Epic poem consists in diction, that is, in the choice of words, and harmony of numbers.
• No pains are spared, no profusion of ornament, no splendour of poetic diction, to set off the meanest things.
• It would not be uninteresting to point out the causes of the pleasure given by this extravagant and absurd diction.
• He seems, however, aware of it, for his diction is obviously studied.
• Not that this diction is in any respect affected or pedantic.
• All Arab authors have looked upon that work as the height of eloquent diction, and have regarded it as the model standard to be followed in all their productions.
• The intervals which are given to the wave depend upon the diction to which it is applied.
• He spoke for nearly and hour and a quarter, holding his fine audience in rapt attention by his eloquence, the elegance of his diction and his superb enunciation.
• Next, Song and Diction, for these are the medium of imitation.
• Moreover, the thoughts and the diction must be artistic.
• I have still a few observations to make on the diction and versification of our poet.
• The others are admired by critics for the strangeness of their diction and the beauty of the nature-pictures scattered through them.
• In these days of photographic realism of word and idiom, our conception of what is fit in diction has suffered a sea-change.
• Still the diction of the stage demanded a measure of liberty.
• He has lost the musical words and fresh diction of the original, as a single comparison between the two will clearly show.
• The age of hard or bold thinking was giving way to flowery diction, and the Law was to be made easy through fine writing.
• Even up to the opening of the Civil War, whatever the faith or the practice of the adult inhabitants of the country, the Bible story and the Bible diction were familiar to all.
• In contrast to the precise and somewhat hard literary style of the elder Hallam, the diction of the son glows with the sensitiveness of a highly artistic nature.

Similar words containing DIC without suffix tion

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