blandiloquent

comparative more blandiloquent · superlative most blandiloquent

1. Speaking, or spoken, in a mild, flattering manner.

   Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo, Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho,

   1599, anonymous author, “The Epistel to the Queenes most excellent Majesty”, in The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij., London

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   Saulsbury, who was very drunk—or, to use the blandiloquent expression of the reporters—who is “in the habit of visiting the refectory very frequently,” gave utterance […] to the following disloyal sentiment:

   1863 February, Vanity Fair, volume 7, number 159, page 29

   For Ralegh at his most blandiloquent the Queen, rather than any mere beloved, is the woman set apart, the inaccessible ideal, the paragon untouched by human mortality, and the mistress who commands love and service.

   2000, Andrew Sanders, chapter 3, in The Short Oxford History of English Literature, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 126