magniloquent

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30
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12

Definition of magniloquent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
    “There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.”
    “The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."”

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Etymology

From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).

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