An excessive ornateness of language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa. ,an ornate style of writing. From Dictionary.com.
And his kind of ornateness and indirection told me that he really was still uncomfortable about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Very Best MenFour Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA] Reference
The ornateness of the dome is both saddening, and very lovely. From Wordnik.com. [Not another photo puzzle.] Reference
The prize tools reflected little of the ornateness apparent in the wares of most of the other exhibitors. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
Apologists for the building say that the profuse ornateness rightly suggests the richness of California's horticulture. From Wordnik.com. [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference
The emphasis in these rhetorics on style is the same: ornateness in communication is achieved through using the figures. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference
The cabin material grades are high, but there's a Danish modern chic to the "furniture" that evokes Oxo kitchen tools rather than, say Tiffany ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [2006 Honda Civic Hybrid] Reference
Because it placed a high premium on logic, regardless of what kind of expression was involved, Ramism dis - couraged ornateness of expression and encouraged a. From Wordnik.com. [RAMISM] Reference
On the ground level of the donjon, as Amanar began to lead them to the door, Conan noticed an archway, its plain stonework at odds with the ornateness of all else they had seen within. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Hence the work can be called a complicated ordering of the figures, but it is also a sincere attempt to provide in English those figures which would lend ornateness to the expression of an idea. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference
Or was it mainly a compulsion to dress, with little effort, a lackluster material that seemed stark and cold to Victorians accustomed to the ornateness being achieved elsewhere with the jigsaw and wood?. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
Chillingworth than to the ornateness of Jeremy Taylor. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
Their apparel was distinctive too, because of its ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [Carson of Venus]
All the ornateness and gallantry of medieval times pervaded a certain echelon of Freeport society. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal-Standard Homepage RSS] Reference
Chelsi and I have lunch on some rocks and admire the radioactive ornateness of the yacht flunkies. From Wordnik.com. [Adrants] Reference
Just the amount of artwork, as well as the ornateness of all the rooms and such was pretty amazing. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
There was a striving for effect, with ornateness and extravagance, and finally the art passed out entirely. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
All in all, with all of the colors, patterns and ornateness and stuff going on everywhere, one could barely see the woodwork anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Brownstoner] Reference
Crafts movement rejected the ornateness of Victorian homes for simplicity in architectural style and a use of more natural materials. From Wordnik.com. [LA TACO] Reference
I processed this image to convey a gaudy feeling of overindulgence and ornateness and it is meant to look more like art then a photograph. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
We'd probably go for a plate that's a little more minimal but we do like the ornateness of the Presidential plates with a bald eagle motif. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
This being said, we can assume that the owner, Mabel Lamb Giddings, was of relatively high social class because of the ornateness of her hat. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
Olympian dignity and an ornateness that becomes simplicity through grace of handling, and does not mar the correct mural flatness of surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition] Reference
In short, to set forth in adequate and remunerative language the wit, wisdom, virtue, beauty, and ornateness of woman as she thinks men think she is. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
The language of the piece is unusually lacking in ornateness or fanciful digression; but the logic is the strongest that Mr Arnold ever brought to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
The taxicab surprised her by stopping suddenly before a brown-fronted residence adjoining an apartment-house of (more or less literally) meretricious ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
In its ornateness Ruskin's style is like his favorite cathedral of Amiens, in the large stately, in detail exquisite, profuse, and not without a touch of the grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
Some wore the northern mackinaw in spite of the balmy April morning, others were dressed like ranch hands on circus day, and a few with the ornateness of Butte miners on parade. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
One's impression of this great edifice is that of a sense of noble proportions, rather than ornateness, and this is to be considered remarkable when one remembers the different epochs of its construction. From Wordnik.com. [Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders] Reference
"Ethan's first impression of excessive ornateness was reinforced by the carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
Often ornateness goes with greatness, 39. From Wordnik.com. [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference
Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Often ornateness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference
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