Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brief or laconic mode of speaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
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- noun A
pertinent andterse style ofspeech .
Etymologies
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Latin breviloquentia.
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