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Grandiloquent and Grandiloquence

February 5, 2020

Grandiloquent

 

gran-dil-o-quent / ɡrænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt   adjective   speaking in a tone that suggests pomposity or condescension Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887   Grandiloquence   gran-dil-o-quence / gran-ˈdi-lə-kwən(t)s   noun   a bombastic style or manner of speaking and writing I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book – my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me – and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty. Max Ehrmann, 1872-1945
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