grandiloquise

present singular third person grandiloquises · participle present grandiloquising · participle past grandiloquised · past grandiloquised

1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of grandiloquize.

   John Gielgud grandiloquises as Hotspur, and Alfred Sangster orates nobly as the King.

   1930, The Curtain: A Monthly Magazine of the Theatre, volumes 9–10, page 128, column 2

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   In announcing the arrival of the French Sovereigns in England, the leading journal thus grandiloquises:—“So has come to pass one of those extraordinary occurrences which constitute the romance of history, and which divide the interest of mankind with the more useful philosophic generalisations to which, indeed, they often give the chief direction and clue.”

   1855 July 23, E., “Points. (From the Liverpool Journal of April 21.)”, in The Age, number 237, Melbourne, Vic., page 7, column 3

   But our reader may impatiently ask, Why tell me of this?—why grandiloquise upon this trite subject?

   1860, Vale, “A Vision of the Future”, in The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine: […], London: Houlston and Wright, […], page 344

   By this we learn one thing, that the Universities of Italy were accessible to women as early as the commencement of the seventeenth century; but republican America to this day bars the gates of all her large and fashionable Universities against women; and if opened, it would doubtless be some time before the Young America there grandiloquising in all the pompous power of manhood would become sufficiently civilized to refrain from the petty and obscene annoyance that usually follows such innovations.

   1871 July 8, “Characters of Distinguished Women”, in The Woman’s Journal, volume II, number 27, Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo., page 215, column 2

   The view of these Falls at sunrise, when the mist was being dispelled, was simply splendid; but I am not going to expatiate or grandiloquise—any one can have the loan of my guidebook for that.

   1883, K[enneth] Mathieson, How We Saw the United States of America, […] private circulation, page 14

   ‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’

   1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158