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Magniloquent

adjective
1.
Lofty in style.  Synonyms: grandiloquent, tall.






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"Magniloquent" Quotes from Famous Books



... some degree help the labourer in other departments of history to understand the nature of the forces which are governing the social development. However far we may be from such a consummation, and reluctant to indulge in the magniloquent language which it suggests, I imagine that a literary history is so far satisfactory as it takes the facts into consideration and regards literature, in the perhaps too pretentious phrase, as a particular function of the whole social organism. But ...
— English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century • Leslie Stephen



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



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