Meaning of lexiphane | Babel Free

Definitions

One who uses words pretentiously.

rare

Examples

“At least I'm not lexiphanic; I'm just a lexiphane. :))”

“That online essayist probably strives to be a logodaedalist, but he's just a lexiphane.”

“Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he "ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions" (p. xvii).”

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