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Aureation

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  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

Etymology

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

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