What's the difference between lexiphanic and magniloquent?

Lexiphanic


Definition:

  • (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.

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Magniloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So one theory has it that, as the former political speechwriter Barton Swaim has written, Trump is popular precisely because “he never uses magniloquent rhetoric for any reason.
  • (2) We’re going to win so much and we’re going to make America great again.” This actually is magniloquent rhetoric, but it is also dazzlingly vague.

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