Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness

[inkd]

Hello, all. My last post was similar to this one, only this time, I have found the name of what it is I seek: "Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness"--that is, stuff like this:

Precipitancy creates prodigality. (Haste makes waste.)

Pulchritude is merely epidermal. (Beauty is only skin deep.)

Not every coruscant substance is aureate. (Not all that glitters is gold.)

These examples were found online. I'd struggled for some time to try and identify the name of this technique, assuming it had one. I vaguely remember seeing it on television, but never in literature. Does anyone know of any texts in which it's used? Thanks in advance.

[ennison]

I've a feeling that there may be English drama scripts from the 18th century where characters have this habit but perhaps I am inadvertently being a perpetrator of terminological inexactitudes.

[Pompey Bum]

Didn't Mr. Micawber used to talk to David Copperfield about being in a state of "pecuniary embarrassment" when what he meant was that he was broke? Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?