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grandiloquence|grænˈdɪləkwəns|
[f. next: see -ence.]
The quality of being grandiloquent; a lofty or imposing style of speech or writing.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. v. (Arb.) 162 And there⁓fore of learned dutie asketh martiall grandiloquence, if [etc.]. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1158 Her grandiloquence and stout resolutions in her speech. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. x. 96 The Grandiloquence of Plato. 1791Boswell Johnson 3 Apr. an. 1773, One cannot help smiling sometimes at his affected grandiloquence. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 321, I find in Johnson's Books..a measured grandiloquence, stepping or rather stalking along in a very solemn way. 1856Masson Ess. iv. 137 In lyrical grandiloquence, Dryden was in his natural element. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xlvi. 411 Both the vagueness and the grandiloquence were doubtless deliberate. |