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Expression
EXPRES'SION, n. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure, as juices and oils from plants.
1. The act of uttering, declaring or representing; utterance; declaration; representation; as an expression of the public will.
2. A phrase, or mode of speech; as an old expression; an odd expression.
3. In rhetoric, elocution; diction; the peculiar manner of utterance, suited to the subject and sentiment.
No adequate description can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of expression which real pathos gives to the voice.
4. In painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject; as the expression of the eye, of the countenance, or of a particular action or passion.
5. In music, the tone, grace or modulation of voice or sound suited to any particular subject; that manner which gives life and reality to ideas and sentiments.
6. Theatrical expression, is a distinct, sonorous and pleasing pronunciation, accompanied with action suited to the subject.
expression appears in definitions for these words:
A Above Abridge Accent Acceptation Accurate Acknowledgment Acrimonious Action Adieu Ambiguous Ambiloquous Anthropology Approbate Archaism Atticism Average Balance Bear Beauty Benediction Blame Blandishment Boast Bold Boldness Bonfire Brachylogy Cable Careless Caress Castor-oil Castrated Censure Chaste Chuffy Circumlocution Clack Cleanness Climax Clinch Coarseness Complain Complaining Complaint Complete Compliment Compunction Conclude Condoling Congratulated Contempt Continuative Cry Curse Cut Dazzle Dead Declaration Deed Default Definite Delicately Demand Denounce Diction Diffusiveness Discountenancer Double-entendre Doubtful Dryness Ease Eigh Elegance Elegant Elevation Eloquence Energy Enunciation Epithet Equation Equivocate Equivocation Esquire Eucharistic Euphemism Explicitness Expression Expressiveness Expressure Extravagance Fall Farewell Feelingly Fib Figurative Figure Fire Flash Flourish Flow Form Fox Fret Frown Function General Get Gibe Giber Gibingly Go Graceful Grandeur Grandiloquence Grape Gratulated Gratulating Gratulation Greet Greeting Guard Guarded Guess Ha Half-scholar Hebraism Heyday Hiss Hissing Hobnob Honor Hum Humor Hyperbolic Idiom Idiomatic Idiotism Ill Impiety Indeed Indefensible Indelicate Indulge Intonation Invective Ironical Irony Jocular Juniper Just Knock Laconicism Lamentably Lamentation Land Language Lash Laugh Laughter Law Laxity Letter Look Management May Meaning Metaphoric Mince Misrepresenting Missaying Moan Mournfulness Nature Neologism Obsceneness Oil Openness Optation Oracular Order Out Pathognomy Pedantic Pedantize Penance Periphrase Phrase Phraseologic Phraseology Physiognomy Piano-forte Pithy Plaint Point Pointedly Praise Prayer Preciseness Present Probatory Proper Pshaw Puerility Puff Pun Pungency Qualification Qualify Quotient Rabbinism Radix Reck Reclaim Redundant Reflection Remark Renew Repent Report Request Reservation Ridicule Rise Robbins Round Rove Rover Rule Run Salute Salvo Sarasin Saying Scoff Scotticism Scowl Scriptural Send Shall Significancy Significantly Signification Sit Sneer Soften Softness Sonorous Sorrowing Spawn Spring Star Stiffness Stone Strange Strength Sun Tablature Table Tautologic Tautology Tender Tenderness Term Thanked Thankfulness Thanks Think Though Toast Town Trope Tumid Tumor Turn Ule Uncouth Unequivocal Unforced Unforcible Unguarded Unity Utterance Vainglorious Veracity Verbality Voice Vote Vulgarism Vulgarity Wade Ward Well-water With Word Worth Would
A Above Abridge Accent Acceptation Accurate Acknowledgment Acrimonious Action Adieu Ambiguous Ambiloquous Anthropology Approbate Archaism Atticism Average Balance Bear Beauty Benediction Blame Blandishment Boast Bold Boldness Bonfire Brachylogy Cable Careless Caress Castor-oil Castrated Censure Chaste Chuffy Circumlocution Clack Cleanness Climax Clinch Coarseness Complain Complaining Complaint Complete Compliment Compunction Conclude Condoling Congratulated Contempt Continuative Cry Curse Cut Dazzle Dead Declaration Deed Default Definite Delicately Demand Denounce Diction Diffusiveness Discountenancer Double-entendre Doubtful Dryness Ease Eigh Elegance Elegant Elevation Eloquence Energy Enunciation Epithet Equation Equivocate Equivocation Esquire Eucharistic Euphemism Explicitness Expression Expressiveness Expressure Extravagance Fall Farewell Feelingly Fib Figurative Figure Fire Flash Flourish Flow Form Fox Fret Frown Function General Get Gibe Giber Gibingly Go Graceful Grandeur Grandiloquence Grape Gratulated Gratulating Gratulation Greet Greeting Guard Guarded Guess Ha Half-scholar Hebraism Heyday Hiss Hissing Hobnob Honor Hum Humor Hyperbolic Idiom Idiomatic Idiotism Ill Impiety Indeed Indefensible Indelicate Indulge Intonation Invective Ironical Irony Jocular Juniper Just Knock Laconicism Lamentably Lamentation Land Language Lash Laugh Laughter Law Laxity Letter Look Management May Meaning Metaphoric Mince Misrepresenting Missaying Moan Mournfulness Nature Neologism Obsceneness Oil Openness Optation Oracular Order Out Pathognomy Pedantic Pedantize Penance Periphrase Phrase Phraseologic Phraseology Physiognomy Piano-forte Pithy Plaint Point Pointedly Praise Prayer Preciseness Present Probatory Proper Pshaw Puerility Puff Pun Pungency Qualification Qualify Quotient Rabbinism Radix Reck Reclaim Redundant Reflection Remark Renew Repent Report Request Reservation Ridicule Rise Robbins Round Rove Rover Rule Run Salute Salvo Sarasin Saying Scoff Scotticism Scowl Scriptural Send Shall Significancy Significantly Signification Sit Sneer Soften Softness Sonorous Sorrowing Spawn Spring Star Stiffness Stone Strange Strength Sun Tablature Table Tautologic Tautology Tender Tenderness Term Thanked Thankfulness Thanks Think Though Toast Town Trope Tumid Tumor Turn Ule Uncouth Unequivocal Unforced Unforcible Unguarded Unity Utterance Vainglorious Veracity Verbality Voice Vote Vulgarism Vulgarity Wade Ward Well-water With Word Worth Would
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