Word of the Day: BLANDILOQUENT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blandiloquent-blandiloquens (smooth-talking), from blandus (bland) + ‑loquens loquent (speaking in an indicated manner)

EXAMPLE
“… Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
Cynthia, with Charites, thou
blandiloquent mery Pytho,
Mercury, with Sappho, Pallas nam’d also Minerva,
Graunt to me no favour: but thou, thou mightie Jejova,
Thou, Lord Emmanuel, Lord of celestial heaven,
Only God imperiall, to mee wretch terrestrial harken.
…”

From: The First Booke of the Oreseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty, 1599

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