Esp., in rhetoric, a striving to give a certain character or quality to discourse without possessing the ability to do it , also an inordinate desire to say something striking , affectation , conceit

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Esp., in rhetoric, a striving to give a certain character or quality to discourse without possessing the ability to do it , also an inordinate desire to say something striking , affectation , conceit 
Esp., in rhetoric, a striving to give a certain character or quality to discourse without possessing the ability to do it , also an inordinate desire to say something striking , affectation , conceit 

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