grandiloquence Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
grandiosity; rhetoric; ornateness; magniloquence.
- the grandiosity of his prose
- an excessive ornateness of language
WordNet
Gran*dil"o*quence noun
Definitions
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
