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Meaning of sesquipedalismo




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sesquipedalismo
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It is to increase a sentence in letters or words unnecessarily, with a pretentious character as if in that way the speech became more cultured. The etymology is explained in sesquipedal. See culteranism, archisilabism, sesquipedaliophobia.

  



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