Byspeech

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An incidental or casual speech not directly relating to the point.

    "That notwithstanding, I would of course suggest that the whole damn corpus is a "byspeech", and morality and ethical conduct come from much more reliable sources - our experience and application of our social relationships that do not require the alleged authority of a text or an imaginary supreme lawgiver."

Example

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"That notwithstanding, I would of course suggest that the whole damn corpus is a "byspeech", and morality and ethical conduct come from much more reliable sources - our experience and application of our social relationships that do not require the alleged authority of a text or an imaginary supreme lawgiver."

Etymology

From by- + speech.

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