euphuism
11EUPHUISM — an affected bombastic style of language, so called from Euphues, a work of Sir John Lyly s written in that style …
12euphuism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inflation, grandiloquence, floridness, ornateness of style, delicacy, purism, Gongorism, affected elegance of language, pomposity, bombast, fustian, rhetoric; see also wordiness …
13euphuism — and euphuistic describe a pretentiously elevated style of writing, after John Lyly’s Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) …
14euphuism — eu·phu·ism || juËfjuËɪzÉ™m n. artificially elegant and affected style of writing …
15euphuism — [ ju:fjʊɪz(ə)m] noun formal an artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking. Derivatives euphuist noun euphuistic adjective euphuistically adverb Origin C16: with ref. to the elevated style of John Lyly s prose romance Euphues …
16euphuism — n. 1. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy (in the use of language), affected elegance. 2. High flown diction, pompous style, extravagantly ornate diction …
17euphuism — n (of writing style) 1. affectation, mannerism, Gongorism; fastidiousness, finicalness, delicacy. 2. high flown language, inflation, bombast, oro tundity, fustian, rant, turgidity; grandiloquence, magniloquence; floridness, floweriness,… …
18euphuism — eu·phu·ism …
19euphuism — eu•phu•ism [[t]ˈyu fyuˌɪz əm[/t]] n. 1) lit. an affected style in imitation of that of John Lyly, fashionable in Elizabethan England and characterized chiefly by excessive antitheses, alliteration, and elaborate similes 2) lit. any similar ornate …
20euphuism — /ˈjufjuɪzəm/ (say yoohfyoohizuhm) noun 1. an affected style in imitation of that of John Lyly, 1554?–1606, author of Euphues, Anatomy of Wit (1579) and Euphues and his England (1580), fashionable in England about the end of the 16th century,… …
