aureation

== English == === Etymology === From aureate +‎ -ion, from Latin aureatus (“decorated with gold”). === Noun === aureation (usually uncountable, plural aureations) (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it. ==== Related terms ==== aureate ==== See also ==== apothecary's Latin graecismus