Word of the Day, Tuesday May 15, 2012: altiloquent

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altiloquent \awl-TIL-uh-kwuhnt\ , noun:

High-flown or pretentious language.

He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.

-- Holman Day, All-Wool Morrison

The meaning of the music was made further explicit by explanations in his own, altiloquent (but purposefully avoiding the technical) Wagnerian prose, wrapped solicitously around the Goethe passages.

-- Alessandra Comini, The Changing Image of Beethoven
Altiloquent stems from the Latin roots atli meaning "high" and loquentem meaning "speaking."

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