interlocution
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of interlocution
1525–35; < Latin interlocūtiōn- (stem of interlocūtiō ) a speaking between, equivalent to interlocūt ( us ) ( interlocutor ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, a limited form of interlocution can be undertaken, by email, with the writer who publishes her books as Elena Ferrante.
From The Guardian
Interlocution, in-tėr-lo-kū′shun, n. conference: an intermediate decree before final decision.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
Greenspan has always been known for being a man of few, and very obscure, words, but his analysis explaining this reasoning includes an interlocution that will go down in history as one of the greatest examples of purposefully idiotic misdirection of all time.
From Salon
Then witnesses were called into the Court which had heard the interlocution; and Mr. Attorney spake in commendation of one of them, saying he was a great linguist, a Justice of Peace, and a learned man, and one that would do wrong to no man.
From Project Gutenberg
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
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