Colloquent

Quick meaning: Colloquent is a noun meaning (rare) One who takes part in a colloquy.

Meaning

(rare) One who takes part in a colloquy.

Example Sentences

Because the omission of all historical data in working out the theses was evidently not conducive to a full understanding on the part of the colloquents.

Campius, whose proper name was Wulff, was first a monk, shortly after 1526 a Lutheran preacher at Itzehoe, North Germany, and in 1529 a colloquent at the dispute at Flensburg on the side of Melchior Hofmann.

‘[…] [Formalisation] leads to a specially stylised form of communication: polite, respectful, holy, but from the point of view of the creativity potential of language, impoverished.’ Through formalisation the response of a colloquent can be restricted or coerced.

The Church Council of the Synod recommended to the 1902 convention that the Synod should not continue these committee discussions, if Dr. Schmidt were retained as a colloquent. […] On the last named date, telegraphic reports were released to the effect that the colloquents had come to a full agreement on the doctrine of Election.

Word Forms

• colloquents

Synonyms for colloquent

Depending on context, synonyms include colloquist.

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