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platiˈtudinal, a. rare. [As if f. L. *plātitūdo, -din- + -al1; cf. latitudinal.] = platitudinous.
1870O. Logan Before Footlights xxiii. 288 At the risk of uttering truisms and being altogether a platitudinal truist, I may mention that it requires a pretty strong organic construction to stand the ravages of an eight months' tour in the land of fast eaters. 1885J. Coleman in Longm. Mag. VII. 76 ‘Junius’ failed..because it was a platitudinal play upon an unsavoury subject. 1900Daily News 17 Oct. 4/6 His remarks do not seem to us wholly free from a modern kind of ‘platitudinal stodge’, as he calls it, and we fear that ‘platitudinous’ would, of the two, be more correct. |