Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being turgid or swollen; turgidness; tumidity.
- noun Bombast; turgidness; pomposity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being turgid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state or quality of being
turgid
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- noun pompously embellished language
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Examples
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Mostly I remembered the dense prose, and a sense of what...turgidity, if that is a word?
Michael Jones: Atlas Shrugged Michael Jones 2011
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The next post in this blog is The hurled turgidity.
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Mostly I remembered the dense prose, and a sense of what...turgidity, if that is a word?
Michael Jones: Atlas Shrugged Michael Jones 2011
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Mostly I remembered the dense prose, and a sense of what...turgidity, if that is a word?
Michael Jones: Atlas Shrugged Michael Jones 2011
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The previous post in this blog was The hurled turgidity.
Where are the regulator types when you need them? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Mostly I remembered the dense prose, and a sense of what...turgidity, if that is a word?
Michael Jones: Atlas Shrugged Michael Jones 2011
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When, for the first time in his life Jake can't get an erection, Maggie wastes no time taunting the Viagra salesman back to a truly tantalizing state of tumescence and turgidity.
George Heymont: What's Love Got To Do With It? (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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When, for the first time in his life Jake can't get an erection, Maggie wastes no time taunting the Viagra salesman back to a truly tantalizing state of tumescence and turgidity.
George Heymont: What's Love Got To Do With It? (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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When, for the first time in his life Jake can't get an erection, Maggie wastes no time taunting the Viagra salesman back to a truly tantalizing state of tumescence and turgidity.
George Heymont: What's Love Got To Do With It? (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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And though the prose occasionally lapses into turgidity … these overwrought moments are more than made up for by the many gorgeous ones.
The Lazarus Project: Summary and book reviews of The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon. 2008
bilby commented on the word turgidity
"The canvas swarms with actualities—plowing, planting, harvesting, sheep-herding, merry-making, rabbit-killing, love, labor, birth, death. Intimately involved with the hard, sordid strife of daily affairs are fine, if not always quite realized, phases of poetry and faith. The style, though tending always to turgidity, is strong and full; the movement, though at times nervous, is rapid; the pictures, though perhaps excessively panoramic, are always richly alive."
- Carl Van Doren, 'The American Novel'.
September 20, 2009