单词 | platformist |
释义 | platformistn. Now rare. A platform speaker. ΚΠ 1866 Times 23 Oct. 7/3 There were present an Archbishop, and several Bishops, among the latter that great episcopal platformist, the Bishop of Oxford. 1886 Cent. Mag. Apr. 958/2 We are not objecting in these remarks to the merely amusing ‘platformist’, if his performance is thoroughly good of its kind. 1907 Sat. Rev. 13 Apr. 457 True, I have never heard any preacher so actually delightful as Miss Dorothy Minto; but she has caught exactly the spirit of her part—the blithe spirit of the budding platformist. 1935 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 15 92 It is..more the performance of the pleasing platformist than the reasoned presentation of a documented book. 1970 Burlington (N. Carolina) Times-News 8 Mar. Mr. Cummings..is one of the featured platformists at San Francisco's Town Hall. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] > suitable for oratory mouthable1825 platformistic1866 1866 Visct. Strangford Select. from Writings (1869) I. 79 [A] true Liberal—as opposed to a technical or platformistic Liberal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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