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Definition of Prolixity
1. Noun. Boring verbosity.
Generic synonyms: Verboseness, Verbosity
Specialized synonyms: Flatulence, Turgidity, Turgidness
Attributes: Concise, Prolix
Derivative terms: Long-winded, Prolix, Prolix, Windy, Wordy
Definition of Prolixity
1. n. The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.
Definition of Prolixity
1. Noun. long-windedness, an excess of words ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prolixity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolixity
Literary usage of Prolixity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1900)
"prolixity may become redundance, and Lord Eldon held that needless prolixity was
... prolixity. — From the nature of impertinence as a defect in chancery, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity by Richard Newcombe Gresley, Christopher Alderson Calvert (1847)
"Needless prolixity is itself impertinent, though the matter should be relevant."
The Orders in Chancery speak of " tautologies, multiplication of words, ..."
3. Grounds and Rudiments of Law by William Taylor Hughes (1908)
"In other words, the common count, its general language, expressions, its conclusions
of law and fact, are permissible under codes to avoid prolixity, ..."
4. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"Lord Clarendon and many English writers preceding him are chargeable with prolixity.
Few authors are more clew and perspicuous on the whole than Archbishop ..."
5. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"... was considered by the Court as an antiquated .mode of pleading, tending to
unnecessary prolixity, and was said to have been altered of late (o). ..."
6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"pounding the same, in full, clear, and exact terms, avoiding unnecessary prolixity,
so as to enable any person skilled in the which must be recorded, ..."
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