dulciloquent

comparative more dulciloquent · superlative most dulciloquent

1. literaryrareSpeaking sweetly.

   Dulciloquent (dulciloquus) that ſpeaks ſweetly.

   [1656, T[homas] B[lount], Glossographia: or a Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon, as Are Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue. […], London: […] Tho. Newcomb

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   ‘Hear me, then, most dulciloquent and incomparable Miss Camilla Mapleton—’

   1840 June, George Raymond, “A West-country Crusade”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LIX, number CCXXXIV, London: Henry Colburn, page 248

   A living essayist is magniloquent, and dulciloquent, about the beauty of the first idea of extracting the private passages of one’s life;

   1856, “Letter-Writing and Letter-Writers”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XL, London: Richard Bentley, page 424

   And heard in their native dulciloquent tones / The strains of that land where the surname is Jones.

   1874 December, “the London Hermit”, “The Tartar’s Tour”, in The Dublin University Magazine. A Literary and Political Journal., volume LXXXIV, number DIV, Dublin: George Herbert; London: Hurst & Blackett; Melbourne: George Robertson, page 739

   “The dulciloquent versatility of the Greek intonation was inimitable by the magniloquent Romans.”

   1885 March, “A Reminiscence”, in The Oracle, volume XVIII, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Courier Book and Job Printing House, page 22

   […]that, just after the master of the house has said “It’s me,” the butler quite characteristically said “It’s I,” an accurate transcript from speech as it is spoken by those who learnt their English from dulciloquent parents and by those who were taught in the common schools, wrong, and needlessly so.

   1933, American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, page 59, column 1