dulciloquy
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin dulcis (“sweet”) and loqui (“to speak”).
Noun edit
dulciloquy (uncountable)
- A soft manner of speaking; gentle speech.
- 1885, Isaac L. Vansant, Roofless: a romance in rhyme:
- Hushed into sweet tranquillity / By that divine dulciloquy.
- 1901, Isaac Kahn Friedman, By bread alone:
- Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short.
- 1998, Sandie Byrne, H, v., & O: the poetry of Tony Harrison, page 135:
- 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.