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I rediscovered the word, "Stilted", while reading Jon Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson, wherein Meacham descripted AJ's first inaugural address as "more stilted than sonorous."
It comes from the physical meaning of stilts. Since one on stilts is artificially elevated, when describing the tone of expression it must mean the same-- that the tone (rather than the actual altitude of the person in question) is artificially elevated, so-- pompous, overblown, stiff, awkward, artificial.
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