MAGNILOQUENCE

grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric

(noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; “the grandiosity of his prose”; “an excessive ornateness of language”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

magniloquence (countable and uncountable, plural magniloquences)

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse.

Synonym: grandiloquence

Source: Wiktionary


Mag*nil"o*quence, n. Etym: [L. magniloquentia.]

Definition: The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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