| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of or relating to the art of public speaking: elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical. See WORDS. 2. Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS.
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