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English
Etymology
From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).
Adjective
magniloquent (comparative more magniloquent, superlative most magniloquent)
- Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
- Synonyms: bombastic, tumid, grandiloquent, pompous
1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126:There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.
2012, David Skinner, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, HarperCollins, page 40:The sermonizer, said Dwight , was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
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speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic
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