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splendiloquent

adj

Etymology

Blend of splendid + eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848.

  1. derived from eloquens
  2. derived from eloquent
  3. compounded as splendiloquent — “splendid + eloquent”

Definitions

  1. Splendid.

    • ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse!
    • I saw her new doo^([sic]) at Fergie's yesternight and it was splendiloquent.

  2. Splendidly eloquent.

    • Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses! And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen! hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely, first citizen of the joyous lexical state!
    • Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA