CACOZELIA  准大雅法

RHETORICAL STYLE of pretentious learnedness and floweriness of diction.

Hypernym
  • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
Miriam 72 "Affected diction, especially the coining of fine words out of Latin, is a form of the vice cacozeelia." This refers generally to the exaggerated use of rhetorical means.

Greek/Latin: A current accusation, and a current practice.

Ancient Chinese: It will be interesting to track this phenomenon down to Chinese parodies.

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