Dictionary entry

Soliloquy

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.