- Adjective {al-TIL-uh-kwuhnt}
Magisterial, refined, and high-flown in speech or language. Particularly in a manner that might be considered pompous or pretentious.
{ Alti- (L. altus "High") + -loquent (L. loqui "To speak") }
Magisterial, refined, and high-flown in speech or language. Particularly in a manner that might be considered pompous or pretentious.
{ Alti- (L. altus "High") + -loquent (L. loqui "To speak") }
1.
The volume's passages were, it seemed to Charles, gratuitously elaborate. Comprehending the altiloquent prose he would have likened to attempting to wade through honey
2.
Jenna's first week at her trendy liberal arts college was enough to disabuse her of her previously-cherished hope that her general quirks and pretensions in life- particularly her proclivity for verbose, altiloquent language- would, in the eyes of her artsy, cliquey peers, outweigh the myriad defects and flaws in her character that had made her a pariah at prior schools
The volume's passages were, it seemed to Charles, gratuitously elaborate. Comprehending the altiloquent prose he would have likened to attempting to wade through honey
2.
Jenna's first week at her trendy liberal arts college was enough to disabuse her of her previously-cherished hope that her general quirks and pretensions in life- particularly her proclivity for verbose, altiloquent language- would, in the eyes of her artsy, cliquey peers, outweigh the myriad defects and flaws in her character that had made her a pariah at prior schools
by Charlemagne1993 November 27, 2019
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