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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The utterance of few words.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncommon Economical speech; the use of few words when speaking; laconism.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Brevity in speech.

Etymologies

  1. From the Classical Latin pauciloquium ("the fact of speaking few words"), from pauci- ("little”, “few") + -loquium (from loquor ("I speak")). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I felt abashed at his pauciloquy; he had not yet told me how I could meet Father's friend.”

    Autobiography of a Yogi

  • “‘mirificent’, ‘palmiferous’ (all in Henry More), ‘pauciloquy’ and”

    English Past and Present

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  • whichbe Brevity in speech. May 13, 2008

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