rhetorician

[ ret-uh-rish-uhn ]

noun

1. an expert in the art of rhetoric.
2. a person who teaches rhetoric.
3. a person who writes or speaks in an elaborate or exaggerated style.

rhetorician

/ ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃən /

noun

1. a teacher of the art of rhetoric
2. a stylish or eloquent writer or speaker
3. a person whose speech is pompous or extravagant

Word History and Origins

Origin of rhetorician¹

1375–1425; late Middle English rethoricien < Middle French rethorique rhetoric + -ien -ian

Example Sentences

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Pequot rhetorician William Apess called out colonial hypocrisies, Potawatomi leader Simon Pokagon disputed false “records penned by the pale-faced historians,” and Cherokee writer Ruth Muskrat Bronson gave a speech to President Calvin Coolidge that denied narratives of erasure.

From Slate

Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences.

From Washington Post

You may be tempted to note that Brett Favre the political rhetorician played 16 seasons for the Green Bay Packers, but that would be mixing sports with politics, which is something Favre and Donald Trump are staunchly against.

From Slate

Obama is a trained law professor and an eloquent rhetorician, but he could not make a coherent case.

From Slate

He met his hero Wayne LaPierre, the sunny rhetorician and National Rifle Association chief executive, on a duck-hunting trip.

From New York Times