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magniloquy

magniloquy noun: synonym of magniloquence.

Noun

magniloquy (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of magniloquence.
    • You must outpuff the puffers of this puffing people, and strike dumb the altiloquence of the immortal vendor of the barbal alkahest, and diamond paste by the terrisonous explosion of your altisonant and ceraunic magniloquy!1810, Piomingo, The Savage, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Thomas S. Manning; […], page 60
    • It is fortunate, for the sake of his conduct escaping misconstruction, that he is not a clerical descendant of some of those worthies, whose mottoes he perpetually holds forth to us as the very concentrated spirit of wisdom and honour, and whose names he occasionally parades with such Homeric...1824, “Art. III. The Broad Stone of Honour: or Rules for the Gentlemen of England. 12mo. 390 pp. 9s. Rivingtons.”, in The British Critic, volume XXII, London: […] for C. & J. Rivington, […]; By R....
    Synonyms:
    magniloquence

Synonyms of magniloquy

Origin of magniloquy

From Late Latin magniloquium. By surface analysis, magni- + -loquy.

Questions about magniloquy

What does magniloquy mean?
Magniloquy means synonym of magniloquence.
What part of speech is magniloquy?
Magniloquy is a noun.

Words near magniloquy in the dictionary

  1. magniloquences
  2. magniloquency
  3. magniloquent
  4. magniloquently
  5. magniloquous
  6. magniloquy
  7. magnino
  8. magninos
  9. magnipotent
  10. magnisonant
  11. magnitizdat

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