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Webster 1913 Edition
Veriloquent
Ve-ril′o-quent
,Adj.
[L.
verus
true + loquens
speaking.] Speaking truth; truthful.
[Obs.]
Definition 2024
veriloquent
veriloquent
English
Adjective
veriloquent (comparative more veriloquent, superlative most veriloquent)
- (rare) Speaking truth; truthful; corresponding to facts.
- 1840, The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, volume 2, page 125:
- 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 […]
- 1987, Richard Peter McKeon, Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery, page 184:
- We have given up magniloquent speech to follow veriloquent speech.
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