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doctiloquent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɑkˈtɪ.lə.kwɛnt/

Etymology

Coined from Latin doctī + loquēns, from genitive of doceō (“to teach”) + present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.

Meanings

1. (rare) Speaking learnedly.
   • Written in a spirit of conservation, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists is doctiloquent in a manner no longer quite fashionable. 1989, Journal of Canadian Poetry,, page 172:
   • It is a magisterial, doctiloquent guidebook, written with a care to ensure that readers never lose sight of its thesis or drift too far out of soundings. 1992, Utopian Studies, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 187

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Relateds

grandiloquent