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31grandiloquence — n. Bombast, fustian, turgidity, lofty language, high sounding words, lofty style of speech, high flown language, altiloquence …
32Miura Baien — ▪ Japanese economist and philosopher original name Miura Susumu born Sept. 1, 1723, Tominaga, Bungo province [modern Ōita prefecture], Japan died April 9, 1789, Tominaga Japanese economist and Confucianist philosopher during the Tokugawa …
33Opera buffa — Not to be confused with Opéra bouffe. Opera buffa (Italian, plural: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia… …
34The Alchemist (play) — The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King s Men, it is generally considered Jonson s best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most… …
35bombastic words — pretentious talk, high flown language, pompous language …
36rant — v 1. orate, speechify, declaim, discourse, expound, expatiate, hold forth, perorate, go on, go on and on; speak, make an address, talk, take to the hustings, soapbox, Inf. stump; boast, brag, crow, trumpet, talk big, exaggerate, hyperbolize, tell …
37euphuism — /ˈjufjuɪzəm/ (say yoohfyoohizuhm) noun 1. an affected style in imitation of that of John Lyly, 1554?–1606, author of Euphues, Anatomy of Wit (1579) and Euphues and his England (1580), fashionable in England about the end of the 16th century,… …
38addict — n. /ad ikt/; v. /euh dikt /, n. 1. a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict. v.t. 2. to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic. 3. to… …
39Jordan — river in ancient Palestine; the crossing of it is symbolic of death in high flown language as a reference to Num. xxxiii:51. The modern nation state dates to 1921 …
40euphuism — n (of writing style) 1. affectation, mannerism, Gongorism; fastidiousness, finicalness, delicacy. 2. high flown language, inflation, bombast, oro tundity, fustian, rant, turgidity; grandiloquence, magniloquence; floridness, floweriness,… …
