magniloquy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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!"
- "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 magniloquy, from “the Marquises of Hertford, Newcastle, Worcester, and Ormond,” to the Esquires, “Sidney, Godolphin, Murray, Kenelm Digby, Bridgman, Luttrell, Dudley Smith, Lane.”"
- "Aph. XI. Of many anatomical terms, the chief characteristics are antiquity, magniloquy, and unintelligibility."
Etymology
From Late Latin magniloquium. By surface analysis, magni- + -loquy.
Word Breakdown
- Root: magniloquium