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- Latin · derived fromgrandiloquentia
- Middle French · derived fromgrandiloquence
- English todaygrandiloquence
From Middle French grandiloquence, from Latin grandiloquentia, from grandiloquus, 1580s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
grandiloquence
Today it means: Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing. Full definition →
Middle French grandiloquence ← Latin grandiloquentia