a. (UN-1 7 and 5 b.)

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Incolo, A rude style without eloquence: vneloquent.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. x. 605. If they once conceive a hatred against an Orator…, the next day he becommeth barbarous and vneloquent.

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1642.  Gauden, Serm., 63. Innocence is often timorous, uneloquent, unexpert.

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1885.  Pennell, Fishing, 241. The foregoing description, however uneloquent, may give … a faint idea of what every lover of the sport feels on rising and hooking a salmon.

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