Lamprophyny

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Lamprophyny is the aesthete’s alternative to loud. Booming orators can call on Lamprophynous speech to drown the opposition in volume. From the Ancient Greek: lamprós (clear or distinct) + phōnos (sound).

“Lord Havelock dominated the delegation; the only rational response to these foreigners, he held, was disdain and lamprophyny.”

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