Definition of Grandiloquences

1. grandiloquence [n] - See also: grandiloquence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandiloquences

grandfather clock
grandfather clocks
grandfather paradox
grandfather paradoxes
grandfathered
grandfatherhood
grandfathering
grandfatherless
grandfatherly
grandfathers
grandidierite
grandific
grandiflora
grandifloras
grandiloquence
grandiloquences (current term)
grandiloquent
grandiloquently
grandiloquism
grandiloquisms
grandiloquous
grandiose
grandiose delusion
grandiose delusions
grandiose type of paranoid disorder
grandiosely
grandioseness
grandiosenesses
grandiosities
grandiosity

Literary usage of Grandiloquences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"At one turn of the proceedings, Bishop This and Chancellor That droning their empty grandiloquences at discretion, Sophie Charlotte was distinctly seen to ..."

2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"At one turn of the proceedings, Bishop This and Chancellor That droning their empty grandiloquences at discretion, Sophie Charlotte was distinctly seen ..."

3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... Bishop This and Chancellor That droning their empty grandiloquences at discretion, Sophie Charlotte was distinctly seen to smuggle out her snuff-box, ..."

4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"At one turn of the proceedings, Bishop This and Chancellor That droning their empty grandiloquences at discretion, Sophie Charlotte was distinctly seen to ..."

5. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"... and grandiloquences of Romanticism, and against the pathos and bathos of the Germans. Debussy spent a great deal of his time in his later years in ..."

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