latinate

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If you read first-hand accounts of the Civil War, you get used to a certain blustery high-minded prose style peppered with tortured latinate constructions.

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  • If you read first-hand accounts of the Civil War, you get used to a certain blustery high-minded prose style peppered with tortured latinate constructions. —  Rambles at starchamber.com
  • Indeed, it seems more of Rabelais than of Boccaccio or Masuccio or Aretino--is brutally British rather than lasciviously latinate, as to the subjects, but sumptuous as regards the language Immediately upon first reading, John Hay, later Secretary of State, had proclaimed 1601 a masterpiece. —  1601
  • Alan bought himself a coffee with a sixteen-syllable latinate trade name —  Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
  • it looks very much like an eggcorn to me, with a reanalysis along the lines of in+telligible, mistaking the word-initial in- for the latinate negating prefix.
  • Boccaccio or Masuccio or Aretino -- is brutally British rather than lasciviously latinate, as to the subjects, but sumptuous as regards the language. " —  1601
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