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Definition of Rhetorical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to rhetoric. "The rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"

2. Adjective. Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought. "Mere rhetorical frippery"

Definition of Rhetorical

1. a. Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

Definition of Rhetorical

1. Adjective. Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade. ¹

2. Adjective. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhetorical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetorical

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rhesuses rhetic rhetizite rhetor rhetoric rhetorical (current term) rhetorical device rhetorical devices rhetorical induction rhetorical mode

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Literary usage of Rhetorical

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

1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"There is, however, no small difference between the values of the rhetorical works themselves. The Ad Herennium, even if ffis it were as certainly Cicero's ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"That wherein discords are concerned, as well, though not so much, as concords ; and may well be termed the ornament or rhetorical part of ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. light (contextual); luminary (literary or rhetorical), ... country, polity (lech, or learned); spec, power, potentate (rhetorical for power"), democracy, ..."

4. A Text-Book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Of these, the rhetorical schools were the most distinct, the most numerous, ... Naturally it was the latter that had a place in the rhetorical schools, ..."

5. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Of these, the rhetorical schools were the most distinct, the most numerous, ... Naturally it was the latter that had a place in the rhetorical schools, ..."

6. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1829)
"But now, if we should please to assert that this work of Dr Rush surpasses all that the ancients have done,—surpasses all the rhetorical works in the world ..."

7. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"(i) rhetorical Poets. The prime source of weakness, then, in the tragedy of ... Their rhetorical propensities were intensified by the example of Euripides. ..."

8. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Of these, the rhetorical schools were the most distinct, the most numerous, ... Naturally it was the latter that had a place in the rhetorical schools, ..."

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