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Definition of Magniloquently
1. Adverb. In a rhetorically grandiloquent manner. "The orator spoke magniloquently"
Definition of Magniloquently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magniloquently
Literary usage of Magniloquently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"His epitaph magniloquently designates him 'an equal distributor of unsuspected
justice ;' on the other hand, George Gerrard, the master of the Charterhouse, ..."
2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"... Greater New York " —as the projected city is sometimes rather magniloquently
called—would surpass Paris in point of population, and would rank second ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"The Tsar may also be excused, if in a French Ambassador magniloquently descanting
on the glorious attributes of the Catholicism which his own Government was ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"For it verbally proclaims rights and magniloquently promulgates principles which
it deliberately annuls in practice. It established in Spain a ..."
5. I Promessi Sposi: (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (1909)
"... these proclamations, repub- lished and reenforced by one government after
another, served only to attest most magniloquently the impotence of their ..."
6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... these proclamations, republished and re- enforced by one government after
another, served only to attest most magniloquently the impotence of their ..."
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