gesticulation

Definition

The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion.

Etymology

From Middle English gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio.

Example Sentences

• "In the eagerness of his gesticulations, first he knocked off my hat, then he knocked off Lessingham’s, then his own, then all three together […]"
• "It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; this is asserted, for instance, in the able but hastily compiled pamphlet (written evidently by someone not an eye-witness of Martian actions) to which I have already alluded, and which, so far, has been the chief source of information concerning them."
• "The breeze had died away and the tree was now quite motionless save when William's statements required forcible gesticulations, which made it sway in a gentle nodding manner as though it were confirming every word the old sage uttered."

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