grandiloquy

English

Etymology

Probably partly from post-classical Latin grandiloquium.

Noun

grandiloquy (countable and uncountable, plural grandiloquies)

1. Synonym of grandiloquence
   • 1706, Richard Brocklesby, “A Consectary from the foregoing Chapter, That the Pagans were so far ignorant of the true God, that He is not to be found amongst the Supreme Deities of their Theopolity.”, in An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the Divinity of the Christian Religion. Containing the true Account of the System of the Universe, and of the Christian Trinity. […], book II, “An Idea of the Pagans Imperial Polity according to the Scriptures”, London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall;  […], remark 6, page 236, column 2:

     How highly their firſt God tranſcendenth our God the Creator, appeareth from the ſwelling nonſenſical Grandiloquies, which the Platoniſts of the Chriſtian Church derive from their School;

   • 1847 September, Moses Margoliouth, “Letter XIV. To the Rev. Dr. J. Horlock, Rector of Box. Marseilles, Sept. 1847.”, in A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1850, page 140:

     I trust, therefore, that the same allowance will be accorded me, if I should be betrayed, whilst writing about Marseilles, into similar grandiloquy.

   • 1868, Louis Bauer, “Treatment of Joint Diseases”, in Lectures on Causes, Pathology, and Treatment of Joint Diseases. Delivered at the McGill University Medical College, Montreal, Canada., New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co., […], page 48:

     If I stated the number of chloroform applications that I have made with complete safety, it might be considered as grandiloquy, and as a slur upon professional brethren who have had the misfortune of meeting with fatal accidents.

   • 1869, “The Dawn of Liberty”, in The Dawn of Liberty; or Cadunt regum coronæ; vicit libertas. An Original Drama, Serio-Comical, in Three Acts, Chicago, Ill.: Co-operative Print, […], act I, scene III, page 23:

     And treason, swift as the dawn of morn, / Flies through the land, to destruction borne— / If you wish to stop the grandiloquy / Of the approaching storm, of which you, / As yet, have the prologue, / Hie quickly home.

   • c. 1932, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete, page 126:

     These grandiloquies, whether at the official marts or casual meeting-places, produced no shortlived effect.