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high-flown
ˈhigh-flown, a. [f. high adv. + flown pa. pple. of fly v.] † 1. Soaring high; carrying things to a high pitch; elevated; elated. In quot. a 1656, Intoxicated, ‘elevated’. Obs.1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lii. (1739) 93 As yet oppression was not so high-flown. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 112 T...
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high-flown
high-flownadj (of language, etc) extravagantly grand and pretentious (指语言等)浮夸的, 言过其实的.
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James Arbuckle
by Glotta, or, the Clyde (1721), a tribute to Scottish life and scenery in which the most ordinary topics (such as golf and swimming) are depicted in high-flown
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Butter (Butter 08 album)
Critics also noted the contrast between Hatori's and Simins' vocals, calling Hatori's "high-flown" and "shrill" and Simins' a "paranoid growl", a "restrained
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illuminado
illumiˈnado obs. variant of illuminato, with Sp. ending -ado: see illuminati.1672 H. More Brief Reply 17 For there are some high-flown Illuminado's, that hold that lying with another mans wife is not Adultery in them though it be so in others.
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Richard Franck (captain)
It is written in the same high-flown language as Northern Memoirs.
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high-sounding
high-soundingadj (of language, etc) pretentious; high-flown (指语言等)夸张的, 言过其实的.
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Charlotte Bacon
eleven-year-old daughter, Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom, under the name of Ianthe, he dedicated the seventh printing of Childe Harold, with attendant high-flown
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Hendrik Gravé
To the Lords of the Admiralty in London he wrote high-flown letters, laden with Latin quotations.
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panegyrist
panegyrist (ˈpæniːdʒɪrɪst) [f. next: see -ist. Cf. Gr. πανηγυριστής one who celebrates a public festival.] One who writes or utters a panegyric; one who elaborately praises; an encomiast.1605 Camden Rem. (1637) 3 Adde..these few lines out of a farre more ancient Panegyrist. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia ix...
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Thamarai Kulam
not well received by viewers because, according to historian Randor Guy, "Tamil cinema was then dominated by movies of Sivaji Ganesan with accent on high-flown
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declamatory
declamatory/dɪˈklmətərɪ; ?@ -tɔ:rɪ; dɪ`klæmə-ˌtɔrɪ/ adjformal and rhetorical; (spoken) with great feeling 正式的及遣词讲究的; (说话)慷慨激昂的 her high-flown declamatory style 她的夸张而雄辩的风格.
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Nicholas of Clairvaux
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Nicholas was the author of letters and of sermons characterised by the use of rare terms, the striving for a high-flown style without genius, and
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz
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"Johnson is an academic, and the first 76 pages provide a high-flown essay on "The Evolution of the Concept of Jazz in Australia" . . . written
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Mezzofanti
Mezzofanti (mɛdzəʊˈfæntɪ) The name of Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774–1849), an Italian cardinal who was master of more than fifty languages, used to denote a person of exceptional linguistic ability. Hence mezzoˈfantic a.1872 G. M. Hopkins Let. 3 Dec. (1956) 238 We have a half-English half-Italian young ...
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