blandiloquence

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UK/blanˈdɪləkw(ə)n(t)s/

noun

Flattering or cajoling speech; (sometimes more loosely) grandiloquence.

OriginLatin blandiloquentia →
Scrabble 28
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Meanings

nounblandiloquence (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableFlattering or cajoling speech; (sometimes more loosely) grandiloquence.

    Stephen rejoined Mr. Bloom, who with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575
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    The scale and ferocity of violence produced by uncivil wars have fascinated, shocked, and sickened the whole world. Words cannot easily describe their cruelty, and their attempted theorisation seems at first glance to be a self-indulgent act of blandiloquence.

    2004, John Keane, Violence and Democracy

Origin

  1. Latinblandiloquentia
  2. Englishblandiloquence

From Latin blandiloquentia, from blandiloquens (“blandiloquent”) + -ia.

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APA

blandiloquence. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blandiloquence

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“blandiloquence.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blandiloquence. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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