veriloquent

comparative more veriloquent · superlative most veriloquent

1. rareSpeaking truth; truthful; corresponding to facts.

   We have given up magniloquent speech to follow veriloquent speech.

   1987, Richard Peter McKeon, Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery, page 184

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   But, Dr. Jacob, you have gone further, and have dared to call public attention to what you have been pleased to designate "the first-fruits" of our anti-reform constitution, to wit, the dismissal of your veritable and veriloquent self from the office of Assistant Secretary in the College of Surgeons […]

   1840, The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, volume 2, page 125

   It has been often remarked, that men, honest, honourable, and verlioquent in everything else, will cheat and lie in horse-trading.

   1855, John Lewis, New Hope: Or, The Rescue. A Tale of the Great Kanawha, page 204