OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22011

soliloquy

/səˈlɪləkwi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
soliloquio
The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.
Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.
soliloquio
A speech or written discourse in this form.
Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.
The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember…
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