sermocination

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  1. Speech-making. Sermocinations of ironmongers, felt-makers, cobblers, broom-men. Bp. Hall, Free Prisoner, § 2.
  2. A form of prosopopœia in which the speaker, having addressed a real or imaginary hearer with a remark or especially a question, immediately answers for the hearer: as, “Is a man known to have received foreign money? People envy him. Does he own it? They laugh. Is he formally convicted? They forgive him.”

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  1. from French sermocination, from Latin sermocinatio (n -), from sermocinari (later Italian sermocinare), talk, discourse, harangue, from sermo (n -), speech, talk, discourse: see sermon.
 

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