Meaning

(literary, rare) Speaking sweetly..

Example Sentences

Dulciloquent (dulciloquus) that ſpeaks ſweetly.

‘Hear me, then, most dulciloquent and incomparable Miss Camilla Mapleton—’

A living essayist is magniloquent, and dulciloquent, about the beauty of the first idea of extracting the private passages of one’s life;

And heard in their native dulciloquent tones / The strains of that land where the surname is Jones.

“The dulciloquent versatility of the Greek intonation was inimitable by the magniloquent Romans.”

[…]that, just after the master of the house has said “It’s me,” the butler quite characteristically said “It’s I,” an accurate transcript from speech as it is spoken by those who learnt their English from dulciloquent parents and by those who were taught in the common schools, wrong, and needlessly so.

Billeter’s persistent tout in “Is it so quiet here?” is the dead-pan hammock of assertions, commenting on the stillness of the land: “To speak into such a stillness is to blemish it”; and “Words fall into these sounds as fallen bodies” (all uttered in Billeter’s heavy dulciloquent Swiss accent, the dragée for the surface seriousness), the latter supposing a primeval state of tranquil sonancy[…]

[…]exposition of Augustine’s thought is dulciloquent to a rare degree.

Word Forms

• more dulciloquent
• most dulciloquent

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When Should You Use Dulciloquent?

Use dulciloquent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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