orotund

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With the orotund, as well as with the natural quality, all the voice modes previously described may be conjoined EXERCISE.--1.

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  1. adjective Pompous and bombastic: orotund talk.
  2. adjective Full in sound; sonorous: orotund tones.

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  • Deepening my voice, trying for the orotund periods of the Reverend Aung Chai, I declared Thus, my brothers and sisters, do all things begin. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • Many passages feature a succession of orotund phrasings piled together with a succession of "and" s, no comma in sight to slow the verbal locomotive. —  Bookslut
  • Damn! Just when it looked like RNC chairman Michael Steele was having back down after some veiled threats from the orotund radio host. —  Home
  • A giant picture of him as that sad, funny drag-queen hangs in the lobby of Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, and it makes a wonderful mental contrast to the image of the orotund actor-manager who directed the Stratford Festival for a record-setting fourteen years. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • But when the orotund racial denunciation replaces rational decision-making, it becomes appallingly like a throwback to the 1960s that is not relevant in this era of Barack Obama. —  detnews.com - Metro-State
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  1. From alteration of Latin ōre rotundō, with a round mouth : ōre, ablative of ōs, mouth; see ōs- in Indo-European roots + rotundō, ablative of rotundus, round; see rotund.

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  1. Irreg. from Latin ore rotundo, with a round mouth: ore, ablative of os, mouth; rotundus, round: see rotund.
 

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