Latinistic

SAXON words are usually more forceful than Latinistic words -- for force, use _wars against_ rather than _militate against_.

The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

An author who had much to do with preparing me for the quixotic folly in point was that Thomas Babington Macaulay, who taught simplicity of diction in phrases of as "learned length and thundering sound," as any he would have had me shun, and who deplored the Latinistic English of

My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

An author who had much to do with preparing me for the quixotic folly in point was that Thomas Babington Macaulay, who taught simplicity of diction in phrases of as "learned length and thundering sound," as any he would have had me shun, and who deplored the Latinistic English of

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

We feel that religious emotion is feeble here, and that the classical enthusiasm of the Renaissance is on the point of expiring in those Latinistic artifices.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

[Footnote 2: These two distinguished authors were of congenial tastes, and both cultivated the same Latinistic literary diction.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864