magniloquence

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Society will pity her in ostentatious magniloquence, which is far worse than contempt or neglect; perhaps it will clothe her with silk and diamonds; but it will never treat her as it would not dare not to treat any lady whom it felt its equal.

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  1. The quality of being magniloquent; a lofty manner of speaking or writing; exaggerated eloquence; grandiloquence; bombast. All the sects ridiculed this magniloquence of Epicurus, as inconsistent with his whole system. Bentley, Remarks, § 44. There was something surprising and impressive in my friend's gushing magniloquence. H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 107.

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  • It might have indicated dismissal, magniloquence or implacable fury. —  Killer Dolphin - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 24
  • One visitor can out-talk the gabby natives: Pomfret, whose grumpy magniloquence is reminiscent of Yates's Berry, the English squire. —  FSF,May2008
  • But these are famous exceptions to the tradition of the inaugural as an exercise in ghostwritten magniloquence. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • When Thorpe dubbed 'Mr. W. H.,' with characteristic magniloquence, 'the onlie begetter [_i.e. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • With characteristic magniloquence, Thorpe added the decorative and supererogatory phrase, 'promised by our ever-living poet,' to the conventional dedicatory wish for his patron's 'all happiness' and 'eternitie.' —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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  1. from Latin magniloquentia, a lofty style or strain of language, from magniloquen(t-)s, magniloquus, speaking in a lofty style: see magniloquent.
 

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