interlocution

[ in-ter-luh-kyoo-shuhn ]

noun

1. conversation; dialogue.

interlocution

/ ˌɪntəlɒˈkjuːʃən /

noun

1. conversation, discussion, or dialogue

Word History and Origins

Origin of interlocution¹

1525–35; < Latin interlocūtiōn- (stem of interlocūtiō ) a speaking between, equivalent to interlocūt ( us ) ( interlocutor ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

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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