noun. A person versed in the art of elocution; one who teaches or writes upon elocution, or who gives public elocutionary readings or exercises.

noun. One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

noun. Someone who practices or teaches elocution.

noun. a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery

"Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all."

orator  public speaker  rhetorician  speechifier  speechmaker  

Tetragrammaton  authoritativeness  ballad-maker  bear-hunter  blue grass  

reader  speaker