plural of by-speech

Quality of being speechful.

Obsolete spelling of speech

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.

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

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

the right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored / expressions that are or should be allowed in some moral or legal context

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