MAGNILOQUENT

PRONUNCIATION: (mag-NIL-uh-kwuhnt)

MEANING: adjective: Characterized by lofty, grandiose, or pompous speech or writing.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from magniloquence, from Latin magnus (large) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1640.
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MAGNILOQUEENT - delivered by our gifted orator of a monarch

MAGNITOQUENT - ...wearing a large hat

MAGNILOQUINT - full of five-syllable words