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soliloqual en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /sɒˈlɪ.ləʊ.kwəl/

Etymology

From soliloquy + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) speaking to oneself
    • She went limp, hid her face, swayed, sank to one knee, and filled the whole width of the narrow passage with arms and draperies, the meanwhile breaking into a laugh so wholly soliloqual that the two players became learners. 1914, George Washington Cable, chapter XXVIII, in Gideon's band; a tale of the Mississippi, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 188:
    • He often stood in the doorway in the morning stretching his arms, scratching his beard and judging the day’s weather, but today he was reminiscent and a soliloqual inner voice retraced his past, weighing life’s successes and failures in the way he saw things. 2001, David M. Besaw, chapter 3, in Joshua, Trafford Publishing, page 21: