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home-speaking

home-speaking noun: direct, forcible, and effective speaking.

Noun

home-speaking (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
    • 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-speaking1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

Questions about home-speaking

What does home-speaking mean?
Home-speaking means direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
What part of speech is home-speaking?
Home-speaking is a noun.

Words near home-speaking in the dictionary

  1. home-sickness
  2. home-sicknesses
  3. home-sit
  4. home-sits
  5. home-sitting
  6. home-speaking
  7. homebake
  8. homebaked
  9. homebaker
  10. homebakers
  11. homebakes

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