Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Foolish or stupid talk; senseless babble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Silly talk; babbling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
silly talk ;babble
Etymologies
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Latin stultiloquentia; stultus foolish + loquentia a talking, from loquens, present participle of loqui to talk.
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Examples
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This article presents a wealth of stultiloquence from which to draw but a few paragraphs stand out:
A brief guide to prophetic social justice making « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Or he is just an impeccable example of genetic stultiloquence.
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