Meaning of grandiloquy | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of grandiloquence.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“How highly their firſt God tranſcendenth our God the Creator, appeareth from the ſwelling nonſenſical Grandiloquies, which the Platoniſts of the Chriſtian Church derive from their School;”

“I trust, therefore, that the same allowance will be accorded me, if I should be betrayed, whilst writing about Marseilles, into similar grandiloquy.”

“If I stated the number of chloroform applications that I have made with complete safety, it might be considered as grandiloquy, and as a slur upon professional brethren who have had the misfortune of meeting with fatal accidents.”

“And treason, swift as the dawn of morn, / Flies through the land, to destruction borne— / If you wish to stop the grandiloquy / Of the approaching storm, of which you, / As yet, have the prologue, / Hie quickly home.”

“These grandiloquies, whether at the official marts or casual meeting-places, produced no shortlived effect.”

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