prolixity
Example Sentences
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The Decline of the West, despite its Germanic prolixities, sold more than 100,000 copies in the first eight years, mostly in Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was written out fully, with all the narrator's repetitions and prolixities, and afterwards pruned into its present shape; retaining, as far as was practicable, Mary's exact expressions and peculiar phraseology.
From The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave by Prince, Mary
So, there's for your prolixities, there's for Thomasin.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
Meredith lives in spite of his prolixities, and so will Conrad, but neither because they are perfect English stylists.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
Also it must often happen that various prolixities and redundancies occur in the course of an interchange of letters, which must hang as a dead weight on the progress of the narrative.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing prolixity
30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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