magniloquence

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magniloquence - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Magniloquence \Mag*nil"o*quence\, n. [L. magniloquentia.]
     The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse;
     grandiloquence.
     [1913 Webster]

magniloquence - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  magniloquence
      n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
           "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
           language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence,
           ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]