Noun
One who uses bombastic or pretentious wording or language.
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At least I'm not lexiphanic; I'm just a lexiphane. :))
That online essayist probably strives to be a logodaedalist, but he's just a lexiphane.
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Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he "ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions" (p. xvii).