pleniloquence

Definitions

Excessive or overly full speech.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“…Mr. Emerson, writing to his friend Carlyle, August 6, 1838, thanking him for his “friendliest seeking of friends for the poor oration” (“The American Scholar”) says: I have⟳ written and read⟳ a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, for though I hate⟳ American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say⟳ No to young men who bid me speak⟳ also. … The first, I hear⟳, is very offensive. I will now try⟳ to hold⟳ my tongue till next winter…”

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