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altiloquent
[ awl-til-uh-kwuhnt, al- ]
adjective
- (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补濒路迟颈濒顎僶路辩耻别苍肠别 补濒路迟颈濒路辞路辩耻测 [awl-, til, -, uh, -kwee, al-], noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of altiloquent1
Example Sentences
A certain American altiloquent was once talking of liberty, when he said, 鈥淲hite-robed liberty sits upon her rosy clouds above us; the Genius of our country, standing on her throne of mountains, bids her eagle standard-bearer wind his spiral course full in the sun鈥檚 proud eye; while the Genius of Christianity, surrounded by ten thousand cherubim and seraphim, moves the panorama of the milky clouds above us, and floats in immortal fragrance鈥攖he very aroma of Eden through all the atmosphere.鈥
An altiloquent was one day about taking a journey into the country.
One altiloquent rendered 鈥淕ive us this day our daily bread鈥 as follows: 鈥淐onfer upon us during this mundane sphere鈥檚 axillary revolution our diurnal subsistence.鈥
You remind me of an occasion some time past when reading a book of an altiloquent style.
The altiloquent talker may be called a word-fancier, searching for all the fine words discoverable, and then putting them together in a sort of mosaic-pavement style or artificial-flower order, making something to be considered pretty, or fascinating, or profound.
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