magniloquent

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From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (talkative, verbose).

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magniloquent (comparative more magniloquent, superlative most magniloquent)

  1. Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
    Synonyms: bombastic, tumid, grandiloquent, pompous
    • 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126:
      There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.
    • 2012, David Skinner, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, HarperCollins, page 40:
      The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."

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