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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.

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  1. 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.