If you truly want to bless others in your life, you must seek out those experiences that keep you motivated and inspired, and then share them.
- Thomas Kinkade
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Word of the say
grandiloquence - \ gran-DIH-luh-kwunss\ - noun
: a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
Example sentence: I prefer a more informal style, so I was a bit put off by the grandiloquence of the author's writing.
Did you know?
"Grandiloquence," which first appeared in English in the late sixteenth century, is one of several English words pertaining to speech that derive from the Latin "loqui," meaning "to speak." Other offspring of "loqi" include "eloquent" ("marked by fluent expression"), "loquacious" ("full of excessive talk"), and "soliloquy" ("a long dramatic monologue"). "Grandiloquence" comes (probably via Middle French) from the Latin adjective "grandiloquus," which combines "loqui" and the adjective "grandis" ("grand or great"). A word that is very similar in meaning to "grandiloquence" is "magniloquence" -- and the similarity is not surprising. "Magniloquence" combines "loqui" with "magnus," another Latin word meaning "great."
- www.merriam-webster.com
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