Alternative form of byspeech

Obsolete spelling of speech

Quality of being speechful.

simple past tense and past participle of speech

plural of speechful

The right of citizens to speak, or otherwise communicate, without fear of harm or prosecution. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see freedom, speech.

(idiomatic) A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.

(rhetoric) Speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.

An action that expresses an opinion without writing or speaking, such as marching in a political parade or burning a flag.

(grammar) A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.