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prolixity

[ proh-lik-si-tee ]

noun

  1. the state or quality of being unnecessarily or tediously wordy; verbosity:

    The book offers food for thought but, for all its prolixity, fails to effectively explain what is at the core of irony as a rhetorical strategy.

  2. a tendency to speak or write at great or tedious length:

    As a communicator, the official suffers from a lethal mix of ailments: terminal prolixity, rampant hyperbole, and a preference for bureaucratic jargon.



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  • 辞路惫别谤路辫谤辞路濒颈虫路颈路迟测 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of prolixity1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English, from Middle French 辫谤辞濒颈虫颈迟茅 鈥渓engthiness, verbosity,鈥 from Late Latin 辫谤艒濒颈虫颈迟腻迟- (inflectional stem 辫谤艒濒颈虫颈迟腻蝉 ) 鈥渢edious length in speech or writing,鈥 from Latin: 鈥渆xtension in time or space鈥; prolix ( def )
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As Chief Justice John Marshall said in 1819, the nature of a constitution was that it was designed for the ages and therefore could not 鈥減artake of the prolixity of a legal code.鈥

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Smith鈥檚 rendering of 鈥淭he White Book鈥 cannot be accused of prolixity.

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As with Anthony Burgess and John Updike, Roth鈥檚 astonishing prolixity exhausted even his most loyal readers.

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A wordsmith who leaves no one speechless and no zippy phrase unturned, he鈥檚 got a gift for gab that goes beyond logorrhea and prolixity into rat-a-tat felicity.

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Facebook can be really annoying in that it seems to be based on a 10-year-old鈥檚 idea of friendship, and because it is filled with pointless prolixity and banality from boring people.

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