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Definition of Grandiloquence
1. Noun. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation. "An excessive ornateness of language"
Specialized synonyms: Flourish, Blah, Bombast, Claptrap, Fustian, Rant
Generic synonyms: Expressive Style, Style
Derivative terms: Grandiloquent, Grandiose, Magniloquent, Ornate
Definition of Grandiloquence
1. n. The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Definition of Grandiloquence
1. Noun. lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grandiloquence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandiloquence
Literary usage of Grandiloquence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Last Winter in the United States: Being Table Talk Collected During a Tour by Foster Barham Zincke (1868)
"HOTEL CABS, REAL FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES—AN EDITOR ON HIS COUNTRYMEN'S KNOWLEDGE—AMERICAN
grandiloquence—OF WHOM THIS IS SAID—NECESSARY TO REPEAT SOME OF WHAT ..."
2. Russia by Astolphe Custine (1854)
"Modern grandiloquence. DOES the reader never remember having perceived, when
approaching by land some sea-port town in the Bay of Biscay or the British ..."
3. Russia by Astolphe Custine (1855)
"Modern grandiloquence. DOES the reader never remember having perceived, when
approaching by land some sea-port town in the Bay of Biscay or the • A similar ..."
4. Charles Dickens by Albert Keim, Louis Lumet (1914)
"SWIVEL- LER'S grandiloquence. — MR. QUILP SCREAMS WITH LAUGHTER.—LITTLE NELL
PASSES AWAY HENCEFORWARD, whether in the big house in Devonshire Terrace, ..."
5. Forty Years in South China: A Biography of the Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by John Gerardus Fagg (1894)
"CHINESE grandiloquence. An episode in connection with the visit to China in 1878
of Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, of the Arcot Mission, is described in a letter to ..."
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