grandiloquence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: grandiloquence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for grandiloquence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grandiloquence n high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" Synonym(s): grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grandiloquence \Grandil"oquence\, n. The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. --Thackeray,