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  2. Grandiosity - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, grandiosity is a sense of superiority, uniqueness, or invulnerability that is unrealistic and not based on personal capability.It may be expressed by exaggerated beliefs regarding one's abilities, the belief that few other people have anything in common with oneself, and that one can only be understood by a few, very special people. [1]

  3. Laconic phrase - Wikipedia

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    A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [1] [2] It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including the city of Sparta, whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.

  4. Grandiloquence - Wikipedia

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  5. Sermon - Wikipedia

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    The preacher begins calmly, speaking in conversational, if oratorical and occasionally grandiloquent, prose; he then gradually begins to speak more rapidly, excitedly, and to chant his words and time to a regular beat; finally, he reaches an emotional peak in which the chanted speech becomes tonal and merges with the singing, clapping, and ...

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  7. Guliang Zhuan - Wikipedia

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    Its major concerns include the ritual code, political and familial hierarchies, and hereditary succession. In general, the Gǔliáng Zhuàn uses a somewhat simple explanatory style rather than the grandiloquent language adopted by the Gongyang Zhuan.

  8. Connotation - Wikipedia

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    A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

  9. Ne supra crepidam - Wikipedia

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    An ultracrepidarian—from ultra-("beyond") and crepidarian ("things related to shoes")—is a person considered to have ignored this advice and to be offering opinions they know nothing about.