Associations to the word «Ornateness»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

ORNATENESS, noun. The state of being ornate.

Dictionary definition

ORNATENESS, noun. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language".
ORNATENESS, noun. An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne