What does speak in terms mean?

speak in terms

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English

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"[…] while Mr. Elliot and Lord Milton and Mr. Ward, three of your party, stood foremost in the ranks to oppose the motion, and to speak in terms the most contumelious of the claims of the reformers […]"

speaks in terms (present, singular) speaking in terms (participle, present) spoke in terms (past) spoken in terms (participle, past)

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