JOHNSONESE


Meaning of JOHNSONESE in English

/jon'seuh neez", -nees"/ , n.

a literary style characterized by rhetorically balanced, often pompous phraseology and an excessively Latinate vocabulary: so called from the style of writing practiced by Samuel Johnson.

[ 1835-45; JOHNSON + -ESE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .