dulciloquent
dulciloquent adjective: speaking sweetly.
Adjective
dulciloquent (comparative more dulciloquent, superlative most dulciloquent)
- Speaking 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...
- ‘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
Examples of dulciloquent in a sentence
- 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...
- “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:
- […]exposition of Augustine’s thought is dulciloquent to a rare degree.2005, Mark Vessey, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (Variorum Collected Studies Series), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN:
Forms of dulciloquent
| comparative | more dulciloquent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dulciloquent |
Origin of dulciloquent
From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”), after Classical Latin dulciloquus.
Questions about dulciloquent
- What does dulciloquent mean?
- Dulciloquent means speaking sweetly.
- How do you use dulciloquent in a sentence?
- A living essayist is magniloquent, and dulciloquent, about the beauty of the first idea of extracting the private passages of one’s life;
- What part of speech is dulciloquent?
- Dulciloquent is an adjective.
Words near dulciloquent in the dictionary
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