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• n  high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

• But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed.
• He exudes none of the magniloquence of a Mussolini, the cold power of a Stalin, the megalomania of a Hitler.

• grandiosity
• ornateness
• grandiloquence
• rhetoric