Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as multiloquence.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Excess of words or talk.
Etymologies
- Latin multiloquium (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley.”
The Wall Street Journal: What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
“Remember, that thou must answer for every idle word, that in multiloquy, the wisest man shall overshoot himself.”
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
“‘multiloquy’ (Beaumont, _Psyche_); if ‘dyscolous’ (Foxe), ‘ataraxy’”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘multiloquy’.
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Tawkward
Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...
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-loquy
From Latin loquium, speech, speaking (loquī, to speak). Archaisms, medical terms, and a few surviving into (near-)common speech. Comments soon!
The -quy is a slightly gangling syllabl...soliloquy, colloquy, ventriloquy, somniloquy, grandiloquy, gastriloquy, magniloquy, obloquy, blandiloquy, multiloquy, parciloquy, partiloquy and 25 more...
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whichbe Excess of words or talk. May 13, 2008