Magniloquy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Magniloquy is a noun meaning Synonym of magniloquence.
Meaning
Synonym of magniloquence.
Example Sentences
Aph. XI. Of many anatomical terms, the chief characteristics are antiquity, magniloquy, and unintelligibility.
You must outpuff the puffers of this puffing people, and strike dumb the altiloquence of the immortal vendor of the barbal alkahest, and diamond paste by the terrisonous explosion of your altisonant and ceraunic magniloquy!
It is fortunate, for the sake of his conduct escaping misconstruction, that he is not a clerical descendant of some of those worthies, whose mottoes he perpetually holds forth to us as the very concentrated spirit of wisdom and honour, and whose names he occasionally parades with such Homeric magniloquy, from “the Marquises of Hertford, Newcastle, Worcester, and Ormond,” to the Esquires, “Sidney, Godolphin, Murray, Kenelm Digby, Bridgman, Luttrell, Dudley Smith, Lane.”
Synonyms for magniloquy
Depending on context, synonyms include magniloquence.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include magniloquency, pectoriloquism, altiloquence, agnomination, pauciloquy, declamation.
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