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Definition of Choice of words

1. Noun. The manner in which something is expressed in words. "Use concise military verbiage"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choice Of Words

Literary usage of Choice of words

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"strange choice of words by the translators. The most famous of these, arranged in chronological order, are as follows : THE BREECHES BIBLE. ..."

2. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1896)
"THE CHOICE OF "WORDS. " IF there is one thing in this world," says De Quincey, " that, next after the flag of his country and its spotless honor, ..."

3. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"The imaginative process, which finds its expression in this concreteness of the poetical style, is in choice of words good Part the result of the emotional ..."

4. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"... from a •wrong choice of words ; and as this defect is too common in the ordinary herd of writers to make examples from them ..."

5. Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a by John Franklin Genung (1898)
"OF all the processes of composition, the first, not in order of time merely, but in the sense of being most constant and important, is the choice of words. ..."

6. Seneca's Morals by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1818)
"OF STYLES, COMPOSITIONS, AND THE choice of words. You cannot expect any certain and universal rule, either for the style, or for the manner of speaking, ..."

7. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1792)
"... choice of words can do;—is of greater difficulty than the choice of -words—therefore neglected in modern times, and in later times among the antients. ..."

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