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Orotundity

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o·ro·tund  (ôr-tnd, r-)
adj.
1. Pompous and bombastic: orotund talk.
2. Full in sound; sonorous: orotund tones.
[From alteration of Latin re rotund, with a round mouth : re, ablative of s, mouth; see s- in Indo-European roots + rotund, ablative of rotundus, round; see rotund.]
oro·tundi·ty (ôr-tnd-t, r-) n.


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An author who had much to do with preparing me for the quixotic folly in point was that Thomas Babington Macaulay, who taught simplicity of diction in phrases of as "learned length and thundering sound," as any he would have had me shun, and who deplored the Latinistic English of Johnson in terms emulous of the great doctor's orotundity and ronderosity.
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