Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being verbal; bare literal expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of consisting of
words ; that which consists simply ofverbiage . - noun
Proficiency orfluency in the use of words.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But unfortunately, thousands of such interviews are used as evidence of the child's total verbal capacity, or more simply his verbality: it is argued that this lack of "verbality" explains his poor performance in school.
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But my point is that the college procedure seems to have investigated the verbality of consent as a way of ignoring or foretalling any more detailed consideration of the case under their purview.
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Very interesting, but I think I'll stick to my unaided verbality, thanks.
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"I will disarm him with smiles and pleasant words," she every day resolved; yet every day was she pierced anew with his arrowy verbality.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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The "precise verbality" is merely a private trouble of the poets.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various
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One feels that in the theologians 'hands, they are only a set of titles obtained by a mechanical manipulation of synonyms; verbality has stepped into the place of vision, professionalism into that of life.
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One feels that in the theologians 'hands, they are only a set of titles obtained by a mechanical manipulation of synonyms; verbality has stepped into the place of vision, professionalism into that of life.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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Hm, in retrospect PITA is probably a label that is a little bit too strong verbality wise, because the mass storage support nowadays seem to work more or less as expected, so thanks for reminding me of that.
OSNews 2009
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_named_, as concepts may be said to do, only shows how intellectualism is dominated by verbality.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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We are not certain of the precise verbality, but thus the poet sang. "
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various
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