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magniloquence|mægˈnɪləkwəns|
[f. magniloquent: see -ence.]
The quality of being magniloquent; loftiness of speech or expression.
1623Cockeram, Magniloquence, proud speeches. 1656Blount Glossogr., Magniloquence,..a lofty manner of speaking, or a discourse of great matters. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 65 He [Buckingham] magnified himself to serve the King, who did not foresee the envy that his magniloquence bred. 1713Bentley Rem. Disc. Freethink. ii. §44. 28 And our Author might have seen, how all the Sects ridiculed this Magniloquence of Epicurus. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 179 We must discharge a mass of magniloquence and affectation. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xviii. 455 Cibber..foisted his own bombast into the company of Shakespeare's magniloquence. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxiii. 8 Their language is colossal, their magniloquence ridiculous.
So † magˈniloquency, in the same sense.
1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge 38 Neyther was this onely Stoicall Magniloquency: hee did the great things he spake. |