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pleniloquence en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin plenus and Latin loquentia.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Excessive or overly full speech.
   • …Mr. Emerson, writing to his friend Carlyle, August 6, 1838, thanking him for his “friendliest seeking of friends for the poor oration” (“The American Scholar”) says: I have written and read a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also. … The first, I hear, is very offensive. I will now try to hold my tongue till next winter… 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and Lectures Notes:

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