longiloquence
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin longus (“long”) + loquentia (“a talking”).
Noun[edit]
longiloquence (uncountable)
- (archaic) long-windedness
- 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
- American longiloquence in oratory
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References[edit]
- “longiloquence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.