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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eloquence \El"o*quence\, noun [F. ['e]loquence, L. eloquentia, fr. eloquens. See {Eloquent}.]
1. Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion.
Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. --Hare.
2. Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech.
Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. --Pope.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. --Macaulay.
3. That which is eloquently uttered or written.
O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. --Shak.
Syn: Oratory; rhetoric.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eloquence
noun: powerful and effective language [syn: {fluency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "eloquence": articulacy, articulateness, debating, declamation, demagogism, elocution, expression, expressiveness, facility of speech, facundity, fervor, force, forcefulness, forensics, homiletics, lecturing, meaningfulness, oratory, passion, platform oratory, power, public speaking, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rhetoric, speaking, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, spirit, stump speaking, vigor, wordcraft
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ELOQUENCE, noun The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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