grandiloquent

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  1. Speaking or expressed in a lofty style; bombastic; pompous. On March 2,1770, there was a scuffle at a rope-walk between some soldiers and the ropemakers, and on the night of the 5th there occurred the tragedy which, in the somewhat grandiloquent phrase of John Adams, “laid the foundation of American Independence.” Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xii.

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  • Victor Hugo is grandiloquent, and the others all have some serious fault or limitation. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • When music in London came to life again, both Haydn and Salomon were much in evidence, but the Salomon concerts were now given under a more grandiloquent title, following the fashion of the time. —  Haydn
  • But ink flowed in place of blood, and the newspapers were filled with a mass of silly, grandiloquent, blustering, insolent, and altogether pitiable stuff. —  Abraham Lincoln
  • Whereby learned grandiloquent Gundling, much addicted to liquor by this time, and turning the corner of forty, saw himself cast forth into the general wilderness; that is to say, walking the streets of Berlin, with no resources but what lay within himself and his own hungry skin. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • He turned a grandiloquent, deaf ear; —  The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
 

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  1. = Spanish grandilocuente = Italian grandiloquente, from Latin grandis, great, grand, + loquen (t-)s, present participle of loqui, speak. Cf. grandiloquous.
 

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