Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being loquacious; loquacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Loquacity.
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- noun The state or property of being
loquacious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being wordy and talkative
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Examples
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But the second my fingers touch a keyboard, the loquaciousness is gone.
Writing Funny 2007
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But the second my fingers touch a keyboard, the loquaciousness is gone.
June 2007 2007
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That sudden loquaciousness is telling; other characters are begging, pleading for Ennis to share what’s on his mind, but Jack is the only one who Ennis says anything of consequence to.
Formalities That Make No Sense upeer 2006
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He owns, however, that the vivacity of the French degenerates into petulance among foreigners, (p. 488.) and vain loquaciousness, (p. 9 Per viam quam jamdudum Carolus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room Vamsee Juluri 2010
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When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force.
Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room Vamsee Juluri 2010
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When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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Thirdly, as regards inordinate words, and thus we have "loquaciousness," because as
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Both of these, however, may be referred to the words which may happen to be sinful, either by reason of excess which belongs to "loquaciousness," or by reason of unbecomingness, which belongs to "scurrility."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
tybee commented on the word loquaciousness
And so my guilty conscience would be eternally grateful if His Loquaciousness could possibly forgive it for inadvertently causing Him to lose His train of thought.
January 24, 2009