Synonyms for grandiloquence
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gran-dil-uh-kwuh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : grænˈdɪl ə kwəns |
Définition of grandiloquence
Origin :- 1580s, from Latin grandiloquentia, from grandiloquus "using lofty speech, bombastic," from grandis "big" (see grand (adj.)) + -loquus "speaking," from loqui "to speak" (see locution).
- noun bombast
- He was young, and liked a bit of grandiloquence as well as another.
- Extract from : « Phoebe, Junior » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
- He adored eloquence, not to say grandiloquence: he was the son of a barrister.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete » by George Meredith
- It is a Parnassian Samain, but always personal, even in grandiloquence.
- Extract from : « The Book of Masks » by Remy de Gourmont
- Mrs. Dodd smiled at the grandiloquence of youth, and told him he had mistaken her character.
- Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
- I smiled inwardly at the grandiloquence of the tone, and yet, how true it was!
- Extract from : « The City in the Clouds » by C. Ranger Gull
- Mere wordiness and grandiloquence may sound like ecstasy yet lack that quality.
- Extract from : « The Literature of Ecstasy » by Albert Mordell
- Thus in the “Prologue in Heaven” he quizzes the Archangels about the grandiloquence of their song.
- Extract from : « The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's » by David Masson
- It has the terseness of the French, without the grandiloquence of the Spanish, being derived directly from the Latin.
- Extract from : « Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes » by Sylvia Sunshine
- He was waving his hand with his usual sense of the grandiloquence of his remarks.
- Extract from : « The Seven-Branched Candlestick » by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
- Grandiloquence is never more characteristic than in its figures; there it disports itself in a very carnival of bombast.
- Extract from : « The Art of Illustration » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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