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Webster 1913 Edition


Prolixity

Pro-lix′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
prolixitas
: cf. F.
prolixité
.]
The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail;
as,
prolixity
in discourses and writings
.
“For fulsomeness of his prolixitee.”
Chaucer.
Idly running on with vain
prolixity
.
Drayton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prolixity

PROLIX'ITY


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prolixity

prolixity

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Noun

prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)

  1. long-windedness, an excess of words
    • 1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:
      Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?

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