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grandiloquence (n.)
"lofty speaking or expression," 1580s, from Latin
grandiloquentia
, from
grandiloquus
"using lofty speech, bombastic," from
grandis
"big" (see
grand
(adj.)) +
-loquus
"speaking," from
loqui
"to speak" (see
locution
).
