Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
grandiloquent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Grandiloquent.
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- adjective
grandiloquent
Etymologies
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Latin
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Examples
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He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes.
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