Meaning

(literary, rare) Idle or vain talk..

Example Sentences

much Babbling, Dicacity, Vaniloquy.

This Oath is ſinful, becauſe it contains no fewer than Forty Battologies or Vain Repetitions, the Senſe of which might have been as well and fully expreſt by eight or nine words at moſt, as will appear to any who will recount them: […] All Vaniloquy or ldle ſpeaking in our Daily Converſation, is prohibite, much more in an Oath: If any Perſon addreſſed another thus, I acknowledge, profeſs, teſtifie, and declare, &c. would he not be thought (impartially ſpeaking) to bring out ſome Ludicrous Matter, and to be in a Sport, or meerly flaunting.

The third is the glorious and immortal Vox Stellarum, &c. &c. with “an hieroglyphick adapted to the Times. By Francis Moore, Physician.” But we have at length reached inspired ground, and must end all vaniloquy.

[Суе]сло́віе, sn. des discours frivoles m. . . . . . . . unnützes Geſchwätz. . . . . . . . vaniloquy, vain talk.

“And what,” says the Voce with ante-Ritualistic zeal, approaching even to the Evangelical,—“Are there not in the Holy Scriptures, in the works of the Sainted Fathers, in ecclesiastical history and antiquities, in our admirable Liturgy, treasures of wisdom and of piety, of grand example and of deep devotion, without having to turn to the ‘vaniloquies’ of foolish, visionary persons, influenced perhaps by speculations anything but devout.”

Verbal associations by sound, by mnemonic automatism, by contiguity of space and of time, meeting with no inhibition, overcome every effort at logical continuity of thought, and impel the patients to mere empty talk (vaniloquy).

Word Forms

• vaniloquies
• vaniloquie

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