aureation

English

Etymology

From aureate +‎ -ion, from Latin aureatus (“decorated with gold”).

Noun

aureation (usually uncountable, plural aureations)

  1. (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.

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