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单词 grandiloquous
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grandiloquousadj.

Brit. /ɡranˈdɪləkwəs/, U.S. /ɡrænˈdɪləkwəs/
Forms: 1500s 1700s– grandiloquous, 1600s grandiloquious.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin grandiloquus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin grandiloquus using a grand or lofty style, speaking in an arrogant tone ( < grandis grand adj. + -loquus speaking < loquī to speak: see loquent adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare grandiloquence n. and later grandiloquent adj. Compare Middle French, French grandiloque (1519; rare before 19th cent.).With the form grandiloquious compare -ious suffix.
Now rare.
= grandiloquent adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent
magnificenta1460
statelya1525
magnifical1533
tragical1533
lofty1565
tragic1566
sublime1586
over-high1587
magnific1589
heroic1590
buskina1593
grandiloquous1593
full-mouthed1594
high-pitched1594
buskined1595
full-mouth1595
high-borne1596
altisonant1612
Roman1619
high-sounding1624
transcendent1631
magniloquent1640
loud1651
altiloquent1656
grandiloquent1656
largiloquent1656
altisonous1661
tall1670
elevate1673
grandisonous1674
sounding1683
exalted1684
grandisonant1684
grandific1727
magniloquous1727
orotund1799
superb1825
spread eagle1839
grandiose1840
magnisonanta1843
togated1868
elevated1875
mandarin1959
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 177 What grandiloquous Epithits..haue they bestowed.
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xxi. 175 The blazoning of their vertues are so grandiloquious.
1788 G. Berkeley Let. 19 Nov. in S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia (1789) 5 Johnson..lamented, in his grandiloquous style, that so pious and beneficent a design had not been concerted with more prudence.
1806 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 4 60 His grandiloquous style often obscures..his meaning.
1898 Boston Daily Advertiser 21 Nov. 4/5 The comical effect is here almost always grandiloquous.
1916 Med. Rev. of Reviews 22 568/2 One of her younger brothers..wrote home a grandiloquous letter.
2004 D. J. Hawkin 21st Cent. confronts its Gods i. 27 Many would be less grandiloquous but make a similar point.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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