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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;
“For fulsomeness of his prolixitee.” as,
. prolixity
in discourses and writingsChaucer.
Idly running on with vain
prolixity
. Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prolixity
PROLIX'ITY
Definition 2024
prolixity
prolixity
English
Noun
prolixity (countable and uncountable, plural prolixities)
- 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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Translations
An excess of words
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