Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Use of many words; verbosity; loquacity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words; talkativeness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being multiloquent; talkativeness.

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Examples

  • There are now two debating-clubs, seminaries of multiloquence.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • A friend of mine, a lady, when fresh in the country once compromised herself rather astonishingly by lending an ear to their multiloquence, instead of resolutely refusing her attention to all communication but that consisting of "yea, yea," and "nay, nay."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • And so their writing is commonly marred by an undue insistence, a shrillness, a certain quality of multiloquence.

    Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night!

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

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