pleniloquenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pleniloquence (countable and uncountable, plural pleniloquences)

1. Excessive or overly full speech.
   • 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and Lectures Notes:

     …Mr. Emerson, writing to his friend Carlyle, August 6, 1838, thanking him for his “friendliest seeking of friends for the poor oration” (“The American Scholar”) says: I have written and read a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also. … The first, I hear, is very offensive. I will now try to hold my tongue till next winter…

参照

• “pleniloquence, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.