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breviloquence rare.|brɪˈvɪləkwəns|
[ad. L. breviloquentia, f. brevi-s short + loquentia speaking.]
Brevity of speech; laconism.
1656Blount Glossogr., Breviloquence..a brief or short form of speaking. 1678Phillips, Breviloquence (Lat., a short discourse, a speaking in brief. 1721in Bailey. [Not in Johnson.] 1863J. Murphy Comm. Gen. xli. 13 A specimen of pithy breviloquence. |