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1Primitive Methodism — methodismPrimitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States. OriginsPrimitive Methodism was born in Staffordshire in… …
2French opera — is one of Europe s most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Lully, Rameau, Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy,, Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen. Many foreign composers have also played a part in the French tradition;… …
3stilted — a. Pompous, swelling, inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentious, grandiloquent, high flowing, high sounding, fustian, stilty, tumid, highflown, grandiose …
4bombast — n grandiosity, rodomontade, pomposity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; tumidity, turgidity, flatulence, Archaic. tympany; extravagance, rant, highflown language, sesquipedality; bravado, braggadocio, gasconade …
5grandiose — adj 1. grand, impressive, imposing, majestic, magnificent. See grand(defs.1 3). 2. pompous, Inf. highfalutin, highflown, high sounding, big talking; bombastic, grandiloquent, fustian. See bombastic …
6turgidity — n 1. swelling, bloatedness, puffiness, turgescence, tumidity, intumescence, tumefaction, ballooning; distention, expansion, extension, enlargement; dilation, dilatation, inflation, Pathol. aneurysm, Pathol. varix. 2. bombast, grandiosity,… …
7verbose — adj wordy, prolix, loquacious, long winded, longiloquent, multiloquent, multiloquous, voluble, effusive, fluent; talkative, glib, long tongued, Inf. blessed with the gift of gab, mouthy, Inf. big mouthed, Sl. all jaw, Sl. gassy, windy; chattering …
8verbosity — n 1. wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence; overtalkativeness, talkativeness, glibness, loose tongue, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf.… …
9imaginative — [adj] creative, inventive artistic, avant garde, blue sky*, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, highflown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie in the …
