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Noun: grandiloquence  gran'di-lu-kwun(t)s
  1. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    "the grandiloquence of his prose";
    - grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric

Type of: expressive style, style

Encyclopedia: Grandiloquence

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