dulciloquy

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noun

A soft manner of speaking; gentle speech.

OriginLatin dulcis →
Scrabble 25
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Meanings

noundulciloquy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA soft manner of speaking; gentle speech.

    Hushed into sweet tranquillity / By that divine dulciloquy.

    1885, Isaac L. Vansant, Roofless: a romance in rhyme
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    Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short.

    1901, Isaac Kahn Friedman, By bread alone

    If Harrison's poetry depicts machine-gun tongues of fire as leading to nothing but apocalypse, a fruitless Pentecost, it does not commend the tongues of fire of dulciloquy and poetic eloquence as capable of bringing redemption.

    1998, Sandie Byrne, H, v., & O: the poetry of Tony Harrison, page 135

Origin

  1. Latindulcis“sweet”
  2. Englishdulciloquy

Latin dulcis (“sweet”) and loqui (“to speak”).

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APA

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Chicago

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