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RECENT POSTSmagniloquent
mag-NI-luh-kwuhnt
adjective
bombastic and pompous speech; boastful
1851Moby DickThough in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title 'Lord of the White Elephants' above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion…1866Charles LambLamb's verses were always good, steady, and firm, and void of those magniloquent commonplaces which so clearly betray the immature writer.1914DublinersHe was a suave, elderly man who balanced his imposing body, when at rest, upon a large silk umbrella. His magniloquent western name was the moral umbrella upon which he balanced the fine problem of his finances. He was widely respected.1922The Expansion of EuropeAn impressionable, domineering and magniloquent prince, inflated by the hereditary self-assurance of the Hohenzollerns, and sharing to the full the modern German belief in German superiority and in Germany's imperial destiny, William II. became the spokesman and leader of an almost insanely megalomaniac, but terribly formidable nation.Labels: Bryan Waller Proctor, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Ramsay Muir
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