Prolixity

'Prolixity': tendency to write or speak in lengthy, tedious detail.

The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

Prolixity characterised these solemn utterances, packed full of cant phrases such as "undigested securities" and "the treacherous attack on the nation's integrity."

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Prolixity of speech produced avoidance of the offender, and silence tended to syncope of the language.

A Romantic Young Lady Robert Grant 1896

Prolixity, indefatigable straining after sensational effect, interminable description, are the defects of the _Adone_; but they are defects related to great qualities possessed by the author, to inexhaustible resources, curious knowledge, the improvisatore's facility, the trained rhetorician's dexterity in the use of language, the artist's fervid delight in the exercise of his craft.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Prolixity may arise not only from the multifarious insertion of unnecessary articles, but from the conservation of too many necessary ones in a sentence; as a workman may be overladen not only with rubbish, which is of no use for him to carry, but with materials the most useful and necessary, when heaped up in loads too heavy for him at once. '

Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840

Variations, I am much pleased that you have so managed the Matter, as to make no Alteration in the Facts; and, at the same time, have avoided the digressive Prolixity too frequently used on such Occasions.

Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela Samuel Richardson 1725

Not _to be long_, for I hate _Prolixity_ in all Business: _In short_, after _Filing, Defileing, Sawing_, when no Body _Saw_.

The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes Daniel Defoe 1696

The like Apology I have for my Prolixity about Cookery and Carving, which being essential to a true Housewife, I thought it best to dwell most upon that which they cannot dwell without, unless they design to render themselves insignificant, not only in the world, but in those

The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

Better therefore is it, to be fubjeft to all the Prolixity, as well as Perplexity, of Law, than to have our Property and Perfons dependent on the Nod of, perhaps,

A Tour Through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark: In a series of letters, illustrated ... 1789

-- what you, with the glorious Prolixity of the Law, could not have crowded into as many Skins of Parchment.

A Political Romance Laurence Sterne 1740