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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grandiloquence \Gran*dil"o*quence\, n. The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. --Thackeray, From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: grandiloquence n : high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation [syn: {grandiosity}, {magniloquence}, {rhetoric}]
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