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Magniloquent   Listen
adjective
Magniloquent  adj.  Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Magniloquent" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was intimated that Henry III. was about to grant the Netherland, envoys an audience, the wrath of ambassador Mendoza was kindled. That magniloquent Spaniard instantly claimed an interview with the King, before whom, according to the statement of his colleagues, doing their best to pry into these secrets, he blustered and bounced, and was more fantastical in his ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... thinks Mrs. Mackenzie, who has seen Sherrick's brass plate on the cellar door of Lady Whittlesea's Chapel; and hence, perhaps, she was a trifle more magniloquent than usual, and entertained us with stories of colonial governors and their ladies, mentioning no persons but those who "had handles to their names," as the ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Magniloquent" :   grandiloquent, rhetorical, tall, magniloquence



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