| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| Various Qualities of Style |
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| 577. Ornament. |
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| NOUN: | ORNAMENT; floridness &c. adj.; turgidity, turgescence or turgescency; altiloquence [obs.], grandiloquence, magniloquence, declamation, teratology [obs.]; well-rounded periods; elegance [See Elegance]; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; trope; figurativeness (metaphor) [See Metaphor].
flourish; flowers of -speech, - rhetoric; frills, - of style; euphuism, euphemism.
BOMBAST, big-sounding words, highsounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba [L.], sesquipedalian words, sesquipedality, sesquipedalianism, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, fustian, highfalutin’ [slang, U. S.], buncombe or bunkum [U. S.], balderdash; prose run mad; fine writing; purple patches; Minerva press.
PHRASEMONGER, euphuist, euphemist; word coiner.
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| VERB: | ORNAMENT, overlay with ornament, overcharge, overload; euphuize, euphemize; buncomize [colloq.]; smell of the lamp.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ORNATE; ornamented &c. v.; beautified [See Ornament]; florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high- big- sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high-flown, high-flowing, highfalutin’ [slang, U. S.]; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent; magniloquent; altiloquent [obs.]; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flamboyant.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative [See Metaphor]; artificial (inelegant) [See Inelegance].
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| ADVERB: | ore rotundo [L.], with rounded phrase.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - To gild refinéd gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet.—King John
- Make all the little fishes talk like big whales.—Goldsmith, of Johnson—Boswell’s Life
- In the end never died, but passed away at her residence.—Dunsany
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