Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lofty speech; pompous language.
Wiktionary
- n. Pompous language; lofty speech.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Lofty speech; pompous language.
Examples
““I am at much pains to avoid abstruse phrases and altiloquence.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘altiloquence’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Awkward-Sounding Words
smock, awkward, specificity, hobbledehoy, kitthoge, stroppy, loobily, ambisinistrous, botcherly, tintinnabulation, megalophonous, bosthoon and 7 more...
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Words to Use
habitué, hackney, harpy, harridan, hedonism, hootenanny, callipygous, lucubrate, pococurante, querulous, recondite, susurrus and 110 more...
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Troopie's list
Just interesting words that have washed up on the shore of my curiosity.
abactor :, abapical, abderian, abditive, abdominous, absonant, aby, acapnotic, acedia, agelast, altiloquence, stygofauna
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A Manner of Speaking
breviloquence, longiloquence, magniloquence, melliloquence, mendaciloquence, sialoquence, stultiloquence, pauciloquence, vaniloquence, blandiloquence, multiloquence, somniloquence and 4 more...
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Under-rated words
These are words I like for one reason or other and should really use more often.
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troopie Pompous or high speech
L. altus, high, and loquor, loquens, speaking.] Lofty speech; pompous language.
May 7, 2008