Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Verbosity.
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- noun
verbosity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
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Examples
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Despite the verboseness of these pieces of legislation, there is actually little substance.
Congress' Best Stimulus Is To Stop Dragging Its Feet Brian Jacobsen 2010
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Only conventions seem to drive me to new heights of verboseness.
BookExpo America 2009: 2-Day Fly By Report, or One Author Amongst the Madness gailcarriger 2009
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Only conventions seem to drive me to new heights of verboseness.
BookExpo America 2009: 2-Day Fly By Report, or One Author Amongst the Madness gailcarriger 2009
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Page 6 verboseness, and interfused throughout with a pietistic priggishness all their own.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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Yet he need not; for I don't often gratify him either with giving him the praise for his verboseness, or shewing the pleasure in it that he would be fond of.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725
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Clearly I'd not have got away with such verboseness round these parts.
The Guardian World News James Richardson 2010
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As well as Anderson has bowled in this series, his new-found verboseness has made him a target.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Despite the verboseness of these pieces of legislation, there is actually little substance.
Forbes.com: News 2010
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Clearly I'd not have got away with such verboseness round these parts.
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With '70s excess aplenty, it contains helpings of funk, arena rock and the Dylan-like verboseness that colored his early work.
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