grandiloquence


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gran·dil·o·quence

 (grăn-dĭl′ə-kwəns)
n.
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.

[From grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]

gran·dil′o·quent adj.
gran·dil′o·quent·ly adv.
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gran•dil•o•quence

(grænˈdɪl ə kwəns)

n.
speech that is lofty in tone and often pompous or bombastic.
[1580–90; < Latin grandiloqu(us) speaking loftily (grandi(s) great + -loquus speaking) + -ence]
gran•dil′o•quent, adj.
gran•dil′o•quent•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.grandiloquence - high-flown stylegrandiloquence - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
flourish - a display of ornamental speech or language
expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant - pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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grandiloquence

noun
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing:
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Translations

grandiloquence

[grænˈdɪləkwəns] Naltisonancia f, grandilocuencia f
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grandiloquence

n (form, of language, speech, style) → hochtrabende Art; his grandiloquenceseine hochtrabende Art; (= words)seine großtönenden Worte
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References in classic literature ?
Leonard Upjohn in his intricate style drew graceful little pictures of Cronshaw in the Latin Quarter, talking, writing poetry: Cronshaw became a picturesque figure, an English Verlaine; and Leonard Upjohn's coloured phrases took on a tremulous dignity, a more pathetic grandiloquence, as he described the sordid end, the shabby little room in Soho; and, with a reticence which was wholly charming and suggested a much greater generosity than modesty allowed him to state, the efforts he made to transport the Poet to some cottage embowered with honeysuckle amid a flowering orchard.
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"But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle how excessively odd!
He was labelled as a poet of revolution because of his thematic concerns and his grandiloquence.
He lashed out, adding that PPP's former haughty leader with grandiloquence are now taking air of court.
C'etait un homme qui ignorait la grandiloquence ou l'orgueil, sa modestie et sa gentillesse etaient aussi grandes que sa vaste culture et son immense intelligence, il est un exemple a suivre pour tous les Marocains.
The dry grandiloquence of the narration puts Celeste at a remove, making her seem more distant than she might be in a movie more interested in milking the viewer's empathy and tears.
What is a progressively more ordinary problem of a prolonged old age becomes, in Cameron's grandiloquence, a societal abnormality.
formal grandiloquence of his verse, which asserts its own polyphony, as