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Speech vs Altiloquent - What's the difference?

speech | altiloquent |

As a noun speech

is spoke (part of a wheel).

As an adjective altiloquent is

pompous, or pretentious in speech.

speech

English

Noun

(wikipedia speech)
  • (label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
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  • (label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
    • The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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  • A style of speaking.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • A dialect or language.
  • * Bible, (w) iii. 6
    • people of a strange speech
  • Talk; mention; rumour.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

    Derived terms

    * after-dinner speech * byspeech * figure of speech * pressure of speech * pressured speech * speech recognition * speechwriter

    Related terms

    * speak

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    altiloquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pompous, or pretentious in speech
  • * 1976 , John Gardner, Jason and Medeia , Ballantine Books
    • [T]hey listened, dazzle-eyed- secretly making lists- to grandly romantic trash: bad poetry, stupid theology- altiloquent designs in the empty air.
  • * 1921 , Holman Day, All Wool Morrison , Kessinger Publishing
    • He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.