Meanings
comparative more largifluous · superlative most largifluous
- literaryrareFlowing copiously; copious, abundant.
Why is thy mind not expelling words in a largifluous manner?
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Not the hundred orations of Croker, nor the largifluous verbosity of a Wetherall, nor the insidious sophistry of a Peel, were sufficient to prevent them from enrolling their names amongst the most determined supporters of Reform.
1832 August 25, Leicester Chronicle; or, Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser, volume 22, number 1,144, Leicester: […] T. Thompson, […]Since in this mighty Kosmic edifice / Man is her noblest work she charters him / With this strange life largifluous in his veins, / Until it fulminates within his breast / With such augmenting ire that he stands forth / Defiant of the Gods, a compeer of their ken, / A challenger and rival of their might / Ev’n in the mysteries of creative skill.
1881, Edward St. John-Brenon, The Tribune Reflects and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, […], page 76The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.
1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinlargifluus
- Englishlargifluous
From Latin largifluus + -ous.
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