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121declamatory — a. 1. In the style of declamation. 2. Rhetorical, grandiloquent, inflated, bombastic, swelling, pompous, turgid, pretentious, high flown, high sounding, fustian …
122oratorical — adjective he imitated the oratorical style of Churchill Syn: rhetorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high flown, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, declamatory, turgid, flowery, florid, Ciceronian; informal , silver… …
123heroic — adj 1. brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, heroical, hero like, stout hearted, lionhearted, iron hearted, great hearted; virile, manly, manful, gallant, chivalrous, chivalric; intrepid, fearless, dauntless, aweless, dreadless, nervy, Sl. gutsy …
124orotund — adj 1.(all of the voice) strong, powerful, mighty; full, rich, mellifluous; deep, sonorous; resonant, resounding, reverberating, rolling, ringing; big, booming, thundering. 2.(all of a style of speaking) pompous, bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent …
125Chalmers, Thomas — (1780 1847) Divine, economist, and philanthropist, b. at Anstruther, Fife, s. of a shipowner and merchant, studied at St. Andrews and, entering the ministry of the Church of Scotland, was first settled in the small parish of Kilmeny, Fife, but …
126Gilfillan, George — (1813 1878) Poet and critic, s. of a dissenting minister at Comrie, Perthshire, studied at Glasgow Univ., and was ordained minister of a church in Dundee. He was a voluminous author. Among his writings are Gallery of Literary Portraits, and a… …
127Parkman, Francis — (1823 1893) Historian, s. of a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated at Harvard, and qualified as a lawyer, but never practised, and though hampered by a state of health which forbade continuous application, and by partial… …
128overblown — /ˈoʊvəbloʊn/ (say ohvuhblohn) adjective 1. more than full blown. 2. inflated to an excessive degree. 3. turgid; bombastic: an overblown prose style …
