rare. [f. L. long-us LONG a. + loquentia speaking.] Speaking at great length.
1836. Cockburn, Jrnl., I. 114. The quantity they have to get through … makes longiloquence impossible.
1887. Sat. Rev., 21 May, 730. Longiloquence, if we may coin a new word for a very familiar thing, is neither their forte nor their foible.
1873. F. Hall, Mod. Engl., 56, note (cited in Webster, 1897). American longiloquence in oratory.
