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Pompous speech
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grandiloquence
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Word definitions for grandiloquence in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation [syn: grandiosity , magniloquence , rhetoric ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin grandiloquentia , from grandiloquus "using lofty speech, bombastic," from grandis "big" (see grand (adj.)) + -loquus "speaking," from loqui "to speak" (see locution ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Grandiloquence is pompous boastfulness or self-importance, particularly in speech or writing. It does not mean flowery speech, an extravagant vocabulary or excessive verbosity: indeed, grandiloquent language can be very concise and simple in its wording.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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,
Usage examples of grandiloquence.
It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet.
Despite the hypocritical grandiloquence and affected piety of the narrative, it was easy to see that, save some warping of facts to make for himself a better case, and to extol the courage of the gaolers who had him at their mercy, the narrator had not attempted to better his tale by the invention of perils.