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Ornateness

noun
1.
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.  Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric.  "An excessive ornateness of language"
2.
An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated.  Synonym: elaborateness.





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"Ornateness" Quotes from Famous Books



... buildings known as Saleh-el-din (Saladin) comprises a great number of rooms whose size and curious ornateness contrast strangely with their present use as a concentration camp for civilian prisoners. From the windows of these apartments one looks across the panorama of Cairo, with its mosques, its minarets and the misty background ...
— Turkish Prisoners in Egypt - A Report By The Delegates Of The International Committee - Of The Red Cross • Various
... the address which the red-cheeked lady had given him, he found her card—"Miss Lily Dale"—below a letter box in the tiled, untidy vestibule of a yellow-brick apartment house, where he waited, grinning at the porcelain ornateness about him, for a little jerking elevator to take him up to the fourth floor. There, in a small, gay, clean parlor of starched lace curtains, and lithographs, and rows of hyacinth bulbs just started in blue and purple ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland


Words linked to "Ornateness" :   fussiness, blah, expressive style, floridity, bombast, style, floridness, appearance, flamboyance, elaborateness, claptrap, showiness, visual aspect, ornate, fustian, rant, flourish


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