interlocution
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of interlocution
1525–35; < Latin interlocūtiōn- (stem of interlocūtiō ) a speaking between, equivalent to interlocūt ( us ) ( see interlocutor) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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But Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his TV interlocution with Walter Cronkite, gave as full a rendition as immediate history is apt to hear.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
In the commencement of the Bible, after a brief prologue, the curtain rises, and we, as spectators, look in upon a process of interlocution.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
It is destitute of the allegorical element, and like some other productions which are to follow, is a mere dramatic interlocution, lightly and inartificially constructed, with little or no plot.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
We exchangd no more words that day.—Your account of the fierce faces in the Hanging, with the presumed interlocution of the Eagle and the Tyger, amused us greatly.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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