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Noun

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

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fustianbombastbombast

Etymology

From aureate + -ion, from Latin aureatus (“decorated with gold”).

Related phrases

apothecary's latin

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