Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To utter or put into the form of a soliloquy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To utter a soliloquy; talk to one's self. Also spelled
soliloquise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
perform asoliloquy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb talk to oneself
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Examples
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The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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He tried to soliloquize, to be facetious, to have his last grim laugh at life, but his lips made only incoherent sounds.
JUST MEAT 2010
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The novelcame to me this wayas if told by the various Wongs at a very long family therapy session, only without the therapist, and with license, it seems, to soliloquize.
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The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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It was daring of Mr. Holroyd to take on a major writer, and for all his forcing of themes, the book thrives on sheer wit and, most important, on welcome asides, when he steps forward like a Shakespearean character to soliloquize about his modus operandi.
The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011
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I join the shadows on the wall / To watch with weary silver eyes / Poets who soliloquize …
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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This excites me; not only for the potential insights it will bring to dark matter; not only for the wealth of new jokes Sheldon will inevitably soliloquize about on the “Big Bang Theory.”
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This excites me; not only for the potential insights it will bring to dark matter; not only for the wealth of new jokes Sheldon will inevitably soliloquize about on the “Big Bang Theory.”
2010 March 2010
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But at a rally people don't just get to soliloquize like that without prior permission or prior tacit permission.
McCain Supporter Rants About "Hooligan" Obama And "Socialist" Takeover -- And McCain Agrees 2009
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She had, therefore, no sooner formed the hasty conclusion, that the individual in question belonged to this obnoxious class, than she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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