garrulity

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But though his garrulity was thereby increased, the charms of the liquor drew his audience away Such were the aborigines of Hayti, the "Mountain-land."

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  1. noun Excessive talkativeness; loquaciousness.

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  • In their advanced state of exhilaration and garrulity, there didn't seem to be much point in trying for individual interviews. —  AHMM,December2006
  • Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • Her voice and her garrulity were rising, but here a sob gave pause, and Mrs. Lenox rushed in, repressing an impulse to say a word on the elementary laws of give and take in love Well, I think you are very sensible to do the washing. —  Jewel Weed
  • Thus chang'd Their former eloquence they still maintain In hoarse garrulity, and empty noise The Sixth Book Trial of skill betwixt Pallas and Arachné. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
  • She could not quite say the word to stop the old servant's garrulity, and the latter went on Whut I does say, Miss Ma'y Ellen," she resumed, earnestly looking into the girl's face as though to carry conviction with her speech--"whut I does say, an' I says hit fer yo' own good, is this; Mas' Henry, he's daid! —  The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
 

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  1. = French garrulité = Italian garrulita, from Latin garrulita(t-)s, from garrulus, garrulous: see garrulous.
 

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