Meanings of magniloquence in English

However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.

Nevertheless, the Sultan detected a shade of hesitation in spite of the magniloquence of this refusal.

You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour.

I trust his magniloquence will be rewarded with a loud fanfaronade as he leaves The Irish Times.

Into what magniloquence does vanity betray us!

These simple words are infinitely more impressive than the magniloquence of the epitaph which Johnson wrote on Goldsmith.

We were to give the Artaserse, a tragedy of extreme length and magniloquence, and conclude with the Donne Furlane.

He talked to the doctor, with youthful magniloquence, of the people's rights, their holy cause, and their certain triumph.

Their very magniloquence condemns them; for, in the present day, it seems an axiom, that simplicity and genius are invariably allied.

Austin Wentworth, whom a soldier's death compelled to take his father's place in support of the toast, was tame after such magniloquence.

It was by no means fame; she would have been the first to laugh at the magniloquence of the word in any personal connection.

But Mrs. Hudson was listening to Mr. Striker, who sat gossiping to her with relaxed magniloquence, his waistcoat unbuttoned and his hat on his nose.

"You owe nothing to me," said Plantagenet, with some little touch of magniloquence in his tone.

"You are noble, you are generous, and-andone day I will give you the money back," he added with a burst of magniloquence.

However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.

Nevertheless, the Sultan detected a shade of hesitation in spite of the magniloquence of this refusal.