Meaning of grandiloquist | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is grandiloquent, especially one who makes a living by giving lectures.

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Examples

“Neither do the public concern themselves how he adjuts his oratorical visage to help by his powers of face; nor heed, whether as a grandiloquist he harangues to us out of the clouds; or as a ventriloquist, out of his belly.[…]he unwittingly exhibits the real dimensions of his capacity, for, good man, he lets out, that in his grand speech on Irish Repeal, he figured as a grandiloquist! But Sir Robert must shine as something grand, be it only as a grandiloquist.”

“Nevertheless, when it came to personal practice and example, nothing can be more manifest than that the great current of his sympathies was with the refining grandiloquists who flourished in the time of the Charleses.”

“Bill O’Neal is a professional grandiloquist.”

“We have a report by one of the neighbors that a fine boy was born at the home of B. F. McDannel’s, who lives three miles nortwest^([sic]) of Giltner, on Monday, June 1st, and that B. F. left immediately for Omaha to consult a grandiloquist to select a name commensurate for the case and the following was received by wire: “Arternus Alvarado, Don Raymon, De Aarsus Turnus McDannel.”

“Under the system which Governor Hughes professes to regard as more representative, Wisconsin is represented in the Federal Senate by an adroit grandiloquist and a multi-millionaire destitute of a single qualification for his high office.”

“When metaphors vault and infinitives do the splits, / When predicates stumble and a verb masquerades as a noun, / The writer may not be out of his wits / But only a grandiloquist putting us down.”

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