lexiphane
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”).
Noun
[edit]lexiphane (plural lexiphanes)
- (rare) One who uses words pretentiously.
- 2005, Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson, page 166:
- Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he "ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions" (p. xvii).