rhetor
a master or teacher of rhetoric.
an orator.
Origin of rhetor
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How to use rhetor in a sentence
Rhetors persuade or communicate true opinion; but they do not teach or communicate knowledge.
An occasion for sneering at the Rhetors and Dikasts is always tempting to him.
It dwells, with emphasis and elegance, upon the patriotic common-places which formed the theme of rhetors generally.
All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the Rhetors collectively.
Indeed, many Sophists and Rhetors presented themselves not as superseding,49 but as expounding and illustrating, the poets.
British Dictionary definitions for rhetor
/ (ˈriːtə) /
a teacher of rhetoric
(in ancient Greece) an orator
Origin of rhetor
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