1. Noun
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
2. Noun
any artificially elegant style of language
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3. Noun
an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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