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grandiloquous, a.|grænˈdɪləkwəs|
Also 7 grandiloquious.
[f. L. grandiloqu-us (see prec.) + -ous.]
Grandiloquent.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 177 What grandiloquous epithets..have they bestowed. 1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. xxi. 175 The blazoning of their vertues are so grandiloquious. 1806Southey in Ann. Rev. IV. 60 His grandiloquous style often obscures..his meaning. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xxx. 560 Grandiloquous talk. 1863N. & Q. Ser. iii. III. 334 Notwithstanding the grandiloquous flourish about the ‘French, Spanish, and Portuguese Authorities of the order’. |