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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
- Example: "the grandiosity of his prose"
- Example: "an excessive ornateness of language"
[syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grandiloquence \Gran*dil"o*quence\, n.
   The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a
   bad sense.
   [1913 Webster]

         The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. --Thackeray,
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grandiloquence
    n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
         "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
         language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence,
         ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]