So*lil"o*quy (?), n.; pl. Soliloquies (#). [L. soliloquium; solus alone + loqui to speak. See Sole ly, and Loquacious.]

1.

The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.

Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy. Spectator.

2.

A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.

The whole poem is a soliloquy. Prior.

 

© Webster 1913.

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