Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Speech-making.
- noun A form of prosopopœia in which the speaker, having addressed a real or imaginary hearer with a remark or especially a question, immediately answers for the hearer: as, “Is a man known to have received foreign money? People envy him. Does he own it? They laugh. Is he formally convicted? They forgive him.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
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- noun obsolete The making of
speeches orsermons ;sermonizing .
Etymologies
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Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.
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A speaker quickly answering his own question. (From Luciferous Logolepsy)
June 9, 2008