Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A speaking or conversing together; colloquy; dialogue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instance of multiple people speaking to each other; a
conversation orconference
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They all received the institution from the Pope, who announced it with an air of triumph to the college of Cardinals, in his collocution of the
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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(I) could care less Eric P. Hamp University of Chicago The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English (1980), an excellently documented gain to our resources, carries a first-class entry for this troublesome collocution of care.
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