prolixities

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.

Redgauntlet 2008

Sir Leicester in a great chair looks at the file and appears to have a stately liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks.

Bleak House 2007

She haggles, she niggles, she wears our patience down with her repetitions and her prolixities.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Now, the original thinker who finds himself compelled to use the current speech of his country in order to impart new and hitherto untried views to his fellows, imposes a task upon the natural means of communication which it is totally unfitted to perform, — hence the obscurities and prolixities which are so frequently met with in the writings of original thinkers.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Mr. Chairman, with your indulgence, I would say that I think of ourselves as we could be a year from this day, with our prolixities docked; our ideologies adjusted; our bitterness purged; prejudices shorn away; doubts cast aside; hopes rekindled; humour enlivened; faith restored; and our honour unblemished, so that we may become, once again, a happy united people.

Christmas Luncheon 1976

The Author, -- whose name I lament that I am, in some degree, prevented from consecrating to immortal fame, by not knowing what it is -- the Author, I say, has not branched his poem into excressences of episode, or prolixities of digression; it is neither variegated with diversity of unmeaning similitudes, nor glaring with the varnish of unnatural metaphor.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

He determined to avoid the prolixities and delay of the ordinary matrimonial course, and, accordingly, captured the daughter of

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

He began by sweeping away the heap of useless facts and forensic prolixities with which his predecessors had encumbered the case; and nothing could be more admirable than the dexterity with which he seized on the most casual circumstances tending to clear the character of the accused.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Meredith lives in spite of his prolixities, and so will Conrad, but neither because they are perfect English stylists.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

Without disagreeable prolixities and repetitions, it is not in my power to represent what pains I took, in trying so to counteract those occupations which distracted my attention and disturbed my peace of mind, that my heart, in spite of them, might still be open to the influences of the Invisible Being.

Confessions of a Fair Saint. Book VI 1917