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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