Euphuism: alternatives and connections

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of Germ…

To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.

Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clea…

The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses…

Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.

an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality

One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose p…

To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.

To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a pa…

Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a…

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…

Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language.

High-flown, bombastic language.