Minerva press

noun

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... show more

Roget 594: description, account, statement, report; expose etc. (disclosure) 529; specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief etc. (abstract) 596; return etc. (record) 551; catalogue raisonne [Fr.] etc. (list) 86; guidebook etc. (information) 527.    delineation etc. (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.    historiography^†, chronography^†; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary.    narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals etc. (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette^†; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana^†, trait.    work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue^†; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator etc. v.; raconteur, historian etc. (recorder) 553; biographer, fabulist^†, novelist.    ... show more

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