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grandiloquists

grandiloquists is the plural of grandiloquist.

Meaning of grandiloquist

Noun

grandiloquist (plural grandiloquists)

  1. (rare) Someone who is grandiloquent, especially one who makes a living by giving lectures.
    • 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...1838, George Merryweather, “Sir Robert Peel’s Oratory”, in Kings, the Devil’s Viceroys and Representatives on Earth, pages 296–298

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Questions about grandiloquists

What is grandiloquists the plural of?
Grandiloquists is the plural of grandiloquist.

Words near grandiloquists in the dictionary

  1. grandiloquises
  2. grandiloquising
  3. grandiloquism
  4. grandiloquisms
  5. grandiloquist
  6. grandiloquists
  7. grandiloquize
  8. grandiloquized
  9. grandiloquizes
  10. grandiloquizing
  11. grandiloquous

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