grandiloquence

[ gran-dil-uh-kwuhns ]
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noun
  1. speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

Origin of grandiloquence

1
1580–90; <Latin grandiloqu(us) speaking loftily (grandi(s) great + -loquus speaking) + -ence

Words Nearby grandiloquence

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How to use grandiloquence in a sentence

  • But in opposing the Bush-Cheney march to war, his grandiloquence changed to eloquence.

    Remembering Robert Byrd | Paul Begala | June 28, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Our central problem is that the combination of his grandiloquence and the September 2008 financial crisis led to his election.

    I Told You So | Lynn Forester De Rothschild | February 28, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Then he made a lamentable effort to deliver himself of fulminations after the manner of the Chief's grandiloquence.

    Menotah | Ernest G. Henham
  • It has the terseness of the French, without the grandiloquence of the Spanish, being derived directly from the Latin.

  • But the Colonel's reserved and persistent grandiloquence finally got the better of the other's inclination to banter.

    The Enemies of Women | Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • He is of the same semi-classic school as Quintana, and like him devoted to artistic excellence and lyric grandiloquence.

  • Here lies the distinction between grandiloquence and genuine fancy or bold imaginativeness.