Usually means: High-flown or pompous speech style.
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▸ noun:  Pompous language; lofty speech.

Similar:
pompatus, magniloquy, aureation, magniloquency, declamation, perissology, ampliatio, periergia, pectoriloquism, pontification, more...

Opposite:
taciturnity, reticence, laconism

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Similar:
pompatus, magniloquy, aureation, magniloquency, declamation, perissology, ampliatio, periergia, pectoriloquism, pontification, more...

Opposite:
taciturnity, reticence, laconism



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