Word of the Day: FALSILOQUENCE


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin falsiloquus (from falsus (false) + loqui (to speak)) + -ence


EXAMPLE
“…And that their Mutual Forces Join’d,
Harnass’d with Wit so much refin’d;
And so adorn’d instead of Sense,
With Trappings of Falsiloquence,
Might draw misjudging Fools to be,
In Love with their Sincerity;
…”

From: The Fifth and last Part of Vulgus Britannicus
By Edward Ward, 1710

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