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English
Etymology
From logo- + -rrhœa; see logorrhea.
Noun
logorrhœa (uncountable)
- (British spelling) Obsolete spelling of logorrhea.
1874 April, Thomas Laycock, “Article I.—On Certain Organic Disorders and Defects of Memory.”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, , volume XIX, part II, number X, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, ; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., →OCLC, pages 869–870:But, then, these persons have not only a copia verborum as to knowledge, but a volubility sometimes amounting to a logorrhœa in expressing what they know—although that may not be much.
1906 April, Clarence B Farrar, “Clinical Demonstrations”, in Henry M. Hurd et al., editors, The American Journal of Insanity, volume LXII, number 4, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 631:When the patient was admitted to this hospital five years ago, the symptoms of excitement in the wide sense, violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, logorrhœa, were in the foreground as they had been during the previous attacks.