colloquy

Definition

A conversation or dialogue.

Etymology

From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.

Example Sentences

• "And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety."
• "House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds."
• "At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal."

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