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Definition of Magniloquent
1. Adjective. Lofty in style. "He engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
Similar to: Rhetorical
Derivative terms: Grandiloquence, Magniloquence
Definition of Magniloquent
1. a. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Definition of Magniloquent
1. Adjective. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Magniloquent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magniloquent
Literary usage of Magniloquent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"never confuses the judgment of humanity (to use his rather magniloquent expression)
by argumentation and special pleading, his treatment of his theme is to ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... lacks the atmosphere of the East, presents us with personages rather than with
persons, and makes them talk in an impossibly magniloquent style ; yet, ..."
3. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"ing," denouncing, inveighing, disinterring dead speeches and by-gone slanders,
the utterance of awful prophecies, the drafting of windy and magniloquent ..."
4. Telesphoros by Warwick William Wroth (1882)
"... is here invoked by his priests in magniloquent language, but the conventional
character of the epithets and phrases ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The quality of being magniloquent ; a lofty mann er of speaking or writing ...
In a magniloquent manner ; with loftiness or pomposity of language. ..."
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