Obs. rare. [f. as prec.; see -ENCY.] = ELOQUENCE 3.

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1545.  Th. Raynald, Womans booke, B 8. Witty Mercury with his doulce & sugred eloquency.

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1546.  Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., I. ix. 19 a. The latin tong is not so fyt to receiue the ornamentes of Eloquencie as the Greke tong is.

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1683.  Cave, Ecclesiastici, App. 27. The wisdom, clearness, and eloquency of his discourses out-went the wisest sages of Greece.

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