[ad. F. loquacité, ad. L. loquācitās, f. loquāci-, loquāx (see LOQUACIOUS).] The condition or quality of being loquacious; talkativeness. Also pl., instances of this.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 60. To reproove … the loquacity of Euripides.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., III. 184. These are they that … glut the Press with their Canting Laquacities.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 333. Alluding to the Loquacity of the Magpie.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 135, ¶ 1. A Man who is sparing of his Words, and an Enemy to Loquacity.
1869. Buckle, Civiliz., III. iv. 203. When a preacher was once in the pulpit, the only limit to his loquacity was his strength.
transf. a. 1716. South, Serm. (1823), V. 423. A loquacity of countenance, and a significance of gesture.
