My words, confused as they were, came hotly, eagerly, and eloquently from my heart.—Wilkie Collins, Basil, 1852
… realizing, as another friend had so eloquently put it recently …, that "life was a part of existence."—Cyra McFadden, The Serial, 1976
In today's jargon, Mencken, eloquently proclaiming views certain to offend so many, would be called a "polarizing" figure.—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books, 11 Nov. 2010
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Middle English, from eloquent + -ly
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