High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
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To have found expression for it, without grandiloquence, is no commonplace achievement.
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But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle-howexcessively odd!
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It was a long speech, but this was clearly the time for grandiloquence.
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Possibly Miss Corson was covering embarrassment with the jaunty grandiloquence that she displayed.
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It was mostly put on, of course, this false grandiloquence of the prig.
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He pressed Elton's hand and endeavored to express his gratitude with appropriate grandiloquence.
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She knew all the lines by heart, in their spacious grandiloquence; lines such as:
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The grandiloquence went out of the voice of Telfer and his face became serious.
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He adored eloquence, not to say grandiloquence: he was the son of a barrister.
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Anyone who has heard and admired his spoken grandiloquence will welcome its transference to print.
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He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.
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What warrant is there for the grandiloquence of the phrase: the Oldest part of the Mind?
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Mrs. Dodd smiled at the grandiloquence of youth, and told him he had mistaken her character.
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He spoke execrable French, but there was a grandiloquence about his vocabulary which set everyone laughing.
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Nothing could have been more fortunate; it afforded a fine scope for my favorite vein of grandiloquence.
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And yet, for all its grandiloquence, there was something in his speech that rang hard and true.