Meanings of locution in English

And previous letters have been publicized enough to explain the similarity of locution.

Some of the variants of this locution are expressed in very coarse language (431.

It was the normal snooty, self-consciously weary locution.

But in that he was-touse the usual Flat Creek locution-inthat he was "a boss."

Masha's poignant locution about God's will was her way of expressing hope in the language of her pious grandmother.

He paused for a moment, both in his locution, and in his walk back and forward across the floor.

It was an odd locution for her to have employed that she was "going out for the day."

He could not make out the words, but he could hear the manner of locution: a gentleman's voice, refined but forceful.

Borrow was shy, angular, eccentric, rustic in accent and in locution, but with a charm for me, at least, that was irresistible.

The scholar accepted the rural locution, the work perhaps of the imagination of childhood, and applied it at hazard without informing himself more particularly.

Williams, to use a locution of our times, may still be talking the talk of gene selectionism, but he is no longer walking the walk.

We are apt in England to class as an "Americanism" every unfamiliar, or too familiar, locution which we do not happen to like.

The unusual locution "affection of truth" or "of good," which Mr. Ager abandoned, translating "for truth" and "for good," has been returned to.

Nasty blunt instruments of locution that devastate an enemy fan's will to live, or at least invokes his will to chuck a brick at you.

The locution is based upon the fact that illegitimate children do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as those born in wedlock (431.

A third locution is, "You are going along to the Kükendell fair" (Kükendell being a part of Meiderich, where a fair has never been held).