splendiloquent
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of splendid + eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848..
Adjective edit
splendiloquent (comparative more splendiloquent, superlative most splendiloquent)
- Splendid.
- 1848 May, Portfire (pseudonym), “Shots from an Old Six-Pounder, No. VII”, in United Service Magazine[1], page 93:
- After a long absence, D—— returned with a still longer face, and, after some hesitation, informed us that the whole of our baggage, including S——'s splendiloquent Scheidam, on whose restorative powers we had so much reckoned, was lost : so that we were obliged to content ourselves, after all, with the ration-biscuit D—— carried in his haversack, and the water we had in our canteens.
- 1959, William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, Simon and Schuster, published 2002, →ISBN, act I, page 21:
- ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse!
- Splendidly eloquent.
- a. 1971, Sydney Bernard Smith, “Invocation”, in The Book of Shannow, Lulu.com, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10:
- Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses!
And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen!
hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely,
first citizen of the joyous lexical state!
- 2006, Nigel J. Jamieson, “The Ubiquitous Book Review”, in Law & Critique[3], volume 17, number 2, page 218:
- Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.