Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grandiloquence"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grandiloquence \Gran*dil"o*quence\, n.
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a
bad sense.

The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. --Thackeray,

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grandiloquence
n : high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
[syn: {grandiosity}, {magniloquence}, {rhetoric}]


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