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Synonyms for colloquy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kol-uh-kwee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒl ə kwi |
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Définition of colloquy
Origin :- mid-15c., "discourse," from Latin colloquium "conference, conversation," literally "a speaking together," from com- "together" (see com-) + -loquium "speaking," from loqui "to speak" (see locution). Meaning "conversation" is attested in English from 1580s.
- noun conversation, debate
- Yet he never passed in at my door—never sat in colloquy with me until midnight.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- His lordship had been an ear-witness to part of the colloquy, very much to his edification.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- I was bored by the length of the colloquy, and sat down on the table swinging my legs.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- It was not an altercation; there was evidently nothing the least exciting in the colloquy.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- He did not invite his visitor to enter, and the colloquy between them was brief.
- Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
- And a bang of the window, as the head was withdrawn, finished the colloquy.
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- The word to march interrupted the colloquy, and again we moved forward.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Powell did not know why it was he had resolved to keep his own counsel as to his colloquy with Mr Smith.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- It is a colloquy between the Master of the Universe and a Stranger.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Powell did not know why it was he had resolved to keep his own counsel as to his colloquy with Mr. Smith.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
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