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gesture

Motion of the face, body, or limbs, used to express emotion or illustrate or enforce something that is said. It is also the art of using such movements for rhetorical or dramatic purposes.



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The paragraph, in the chapter headed Negation, goes on to define the gesture's meaning: "the gesturer wishes to show that he wishes to distance his head from whatever is offered to him or proposed that does not please him.
 
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