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American Heritage Dictionary (3 definitions)
- A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
- A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
- The act of speaking to oneself.
–noun
Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- A talking to one's self; a discourse or talk by a person who is alone, or which is not addressed to any one even when others are present.
- A written composition containing such a talk or discourse, or what purports to be one.
–noun
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Your Exodus reference in soliloquy is overly simplistic. of the pagan left, ACLU, etc efforts ..
In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind.
This soliloquy is apt to occur with a student somewhere in his Sophomore or Junior year when after moving on grudgingly through half his term, the growing labours of the way begin to sicken his heart, and the feeling of incipient manhood to inspire the hope that he may be allowed to have the disposal of himself.
On them, I printed the following self-justifying soliloquy from the movie "Wall Street" in the unlikely event they experience some sleepless nights:
How else does a New York Shakespearean actor survive, knowing that the closest he will come to having an audience for a soliloquy is when he dramatically interprets the list of daily specials?
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/ (sə-lĭlˈə-kwē)/
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Etymology
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Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + Latin loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.
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