What's the difference between colloquy and locution?

Colloquy


Definition:

  • (n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
  • (n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Psychical assessment was evaluated by colloquy and by the administration of some psychodiagnostic tests: EPI, MMPI, Zung.
  • (2) Finally, Sigerist stresses the fact that, in addition to these four lecture courses, seminars and a colloquy may provide students with the possibility of working on a specific subject in more detail.
  • (3) In subsequent colloquy, the president stressed that we would be "in a bad position" if we chose to set off an international conflagration by rejecting proposals that would seem quite reasonable to survivors, if any cared.
  • (4) Clapper has already apologised for untruthfully testifying during a March Senate colloquy with Wyden that the NSA does "not wittingly" collect data on millions of Americans.
  • (5) To highlight the report and its findings , the White House is hosting a series of events this afternoon, including a Rose Garden colloquy called “Weather from the White House”, billed as a conversation between the president and “local and national meteorologists”.

Locution


Definition:

  • (n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mas never uses the word "independence" and it does not appear in his party, Convergència i Unió's manifesto, which instead refers to "our own state", Mas's preferred locution.
  • (2) To achieve conceptual clarity in the theory of placebogenic phenomena, this paper offers a rigorous articulation of the placebo notion, a lucid new terminology that obviates the defects intrinsic to the traditional locutions employed in the placebo literature, and a substantial revamping of A. K. Shapiro's influential prior definition of 'placebo'.
  • (3) Those leaking against Flynn, Nunes said, using a favored Trump locution, “ want the swamp to remain ”.
  • (4) In spite of its ambiguity, the use of the locution natural drug is spreading in the lay media and efforts are made to introduce it in more scientific contexts.