tumidity
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Richard H. Dana and Fitz-Greene Halleck were poets who had a much higher than the merely negative merit of freedom from tumidity, the bane of the earlier American bards.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
No one can overlook its frequent tumidity and constant want of terseness.
From Gibbon by James Cotter Morison
The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
The swelling diction of Aeschylus and Isaiah resembles that of Almanzor and Maximin no more than the tumidity of a muscle resembles the tumidity of a boil.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
