magniloquent

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To be magniloquent, and talk about the empire state, may well become the forty gentlemen who represent the state on this floor, having reference to their own numbers, and the numbers of their constituents, or to the extent, fertility, and beauty, of her soil yet this is a distinction not recognized in the constitution of the United States.

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  1. adjective Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.

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  • To be magniloquent, and talk about the empire state, may well become the forty gentlemen who represent the state on this floor, having reference to their own numbers, and the numbers of their constituents, or to the extent, fertility, and beauty, of her soil; yet this is a distinction not recognized in the constitution of the United States. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, by Josiah Quincy
  • Magnificent, magniloquent, turbulent, it is starred with glowing phrases as thickly as with glowing deeds. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
  • To be magniloquent, and talk about the empire state, may well become the forty gentlemen who represent the state on this floor, having reference to their own numbers, and the numbers of their constituents, or to the extent, fertility, and beauty, of her soil yet this is a distinction not recognized in the constitution of the United States. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
  • The "Memoir," written by an old man who had squandered his energies and sunk into deserved obscurity, is tedious and magniloquent, and sometimes inaccurate. —  The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • (This magniloquent version of his secretary's name is one of Caesar's jokes. —  Caesar and Cleopatra
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  1. Back formation from magniloquence, grandiloquence, from Latin magniloquentia : magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots + loquēns, loquent-, present participle of loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin magniloquen(t-)s, equivalent to magniloquus, speaking in a lofty style, from magnus, great, lofty, + loquen(t-)s, present participle of loqui, speak: see locution.
 

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