magniloquence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    grandiosity; grandiloquence; rhetoric; ornateness.
    • the grandiosity of his prose
    • an excessive ornateness of language

WordNet


Mag*nil"o*quence noun
Etymology
L. magniloquentia.
Definitions
  1. The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Webster 1913