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grandiloquent, a.|grænˈdɪləkwənt|
[f. L. grandiloqu-us, of the same meaning, f. grandi-s big, great (see grand a.) + -loquus speaking, f. root of loquī to speak. For the ending (after eloquent) cf. magniloquent and Sp. grandilocuente, It. grandiloquente.]
Of a person, his language, style of writing, etc.: Characterized by swelling or pompous expression.
1593Nashe Strange Newes Wks. (Grosart) II. 253, I..admire your aged Muse, that may well be grand-mother to our grandeloquentest Poets at this present. 1656Blount Glossogr., Grandiloquent, that useth great words, that hath a high stile. 1827–48Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 361 Men are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. v. §17 230 To imitate the grandiloquent strains of Pindar. 1840Poe Gold Bug Wks. 1864 I. 60 ‘I sent for you’, said he, in a grandiloquent tone. 1868Helps Realmah viii. (1876) 178 You should have heard him dilate upon it in his grandiloquent way. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. i. 35 An enthusiastic (and of course a grandiloquent) admirer of the future President.
absol.1829Lytton Disowned 18 A prodigious love of the grandiloquent.
Hence granˈdiloquently adv., in grandiloquent language.
1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fort. II. 119 You talk very grandiloquently about taking an interest in me. 1870Spectator 27 Aug. 1039/2 That insignificant chain of hills which geographers grandiloquently term the Ural Mountains. |