pleniloquence

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noun

Excessive or overly full speech.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounpleniloquence (countable and uncountable, plural pleniloquences)

plural pleniloquences

  1. countableuncountableExcessive or overly full speech.
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    …Mr. Emerson, writing to his friend Carlyle, August 6, 1838, thanking him for his “friendliest seeking of friends for the poor oration” (“The American Scholar”) says: I have written and read a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also. … The first, I hear, is very offensive. I will now try to hold my tongue till next winter…

    1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and Lectures Notes

Origin

  1. Latinloquentia
  2. Latinplenus
  3. Englishpleniloquence

From Latin plenus and Latin loquentia.

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Chicago

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