Meaning of playactor | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“It is the oldest of saws that every great orator, whether secular or ecclesiastical, has in him many of the attributes of a playactor, and no one can have⟳ listened to the most successful of American preachers — Mr. Henry Ward Beecher — whose name⟳ has been so long before the public in connection with a painful and humiliating investigation — without seeing how closely his performances on the platform of Plymouth Church draw⟳ their inspiration from the stage⟳.”

“"It's the playactor!" cried he, slashing at my cudgel.”

“He is Gāṅgo the playactor ("nata"). The stories connected with him, his son Jaya, also a playactor ("Jayanata), and the latter's wife Vidyutprabhā are probably baseless pleasantry.”

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