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Laureation vs Aureation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between laureation and aureation

is that laureation is the act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title while aureation is (rhetoric) the enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or latinate words for it.

laureation

English

Noun

(head)
  • The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

    • aureation

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.

    • See also

    * apothecary's Latin * graecismus