prolixly

• “Related forms: prolixity, prolixness (noun), prolixly (verb)”

  Word of the Week #6

• “Nevertheless, if we consider that Marchia appears to have been the first in the West to break with Aristotle so clearly, decisively, and prolixly, it is more than likely that his virtus derelicta was Buridan's inspiration.”

  Francis of Marchia

• “Still, it is remarkable, and even admirable, though in Mr. Purnell's case it is not inconsistent with dealing somewhat prolixly with rather dry subjects, and being immensely inconclusive upon all important matters, and very painfully conclusive on trivial ones.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867

• “Also he caused to be written how much land his archbishops had, and his suffragan bishops, and abbots, and earls; and though I may narrate somewhat prolixly, what or how much each man had who was a holder of land in England, in land, or in cattle, and how much money it might be worth.”

  English Villages

• “Scottish Commissioners themselves, been reasoning "prolixly, earnestly, and passionately" for universal Toleration.”

  The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649

• “At all events, he had recently, in the presence of the Scottish Commissioners themselves, been reasoning “prolixly, earnestly, and passionately” for universal Toleration.”

  The Life of John Milton

• “It would answer no purpose to occupy your attention by speaking prolixly of the purity of my intention and my zeal; time and experience will speak either for or against me; I will merely enclose this printed paper, by which you will learn who he is who has taken the liberty of writing to you.”

  Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society

• “Command those fathers who are out of Goa, to write to him from time to time, but not too prolixly; and to give him an account of the fruit of their labours.”

  The Works of John Dryden

• “If, then, the first volume should appear to any as barren in important incident, dwelling prolixly on trifles, or, rather, should seem at first sight profuse of reflections, and in general tediously minute, it must be remembered that it was precisely out of small beginnings that the Revolution was gradually developed; and that all the great results which follow sprang out of a countless number of trifling and little circumstances.”

  The Works of Frederich Schiller

• “I HAVE in the Vindication prolixly shewn, that the literal histories of these miracles is rational, consistent, and credible: so that we may be safe and easy in understanding them in their literal sense, whatever any fathers or other people may say to the contrary.”

  A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.

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