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Etymology

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aureate +‎ -ion, from Latin aureatus (decorated with gold)

Noun

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aureation (usually uncountable, plural aureations)

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