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English
Etymology
Latin dulcis (“sweet”) and loqui (“to speak”).
Noun
dulciloquy (uncountable)
- A soft manner of speaking; gentle speech.
1885, Isaac L. Vansant, Roofless: a romance in rhyme:Hushed into sweet tranquillity / By that divine dulciloquy.
1901, Isaac Kahn Friedman, By bread alone:Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short.
1998, Sandie Byrne, H, v., & O: the poetry of Tony Harrison, page 135:If Harrison's poetry depicts machine-gun tongues of fire as leading to nothing but apocalypse, a fruitless Pentecost, it does not commend the tongues of fire of dulciloquy and poetic eloquence as capable of bringing redemption.