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  • noun Plural form of verbosity.

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Examples

  • But the new thing did not fit into the little outlines and verbosities which served as a philosophy for our political hacks.

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

  • I handed it over, yet it was a grin that contained more sincere thanks than a multitude of the verbosities of speech common to the members of my own class.

    Chapter 13 1904

  • He grinned when I handed it over, yet it was a grin that contained more sincere thanks than a multitude of the verbosities of speech common to the members of my own class.

    The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

  • -- You rhetorician there, with your verbosities and your barbarisms, your antitheses and balances and periods, off with the whole pack of them.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • We are stuffed with abstract conceptions, and glib with verbalities and verbosities; and in the culture of these higher functions the peculiar sources of joy connected with our simpler functions often dry up, and we grow stone-blind and insensible to life's more elementary and general goods and joys.

    Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876

  • We might end up needing to have a couple of pieces to each class paragraph, pieces that perhaps build upon each other to produce the different outputs with different verbosities.

    Planet Ubuntu 2009

  • We might end up needing to have a couple of pieces to each class paragraph, pieces that perhaps build upon each other to produce the different outputs with different verbosities.

    Planet Ubuntu 2009

  • All languages have their quirks and verbosities, which to the outsider look stupid and annoying.

    Hottest News Articles 2009

  • We might end up needing to have a couple of pieces to each class paragraph, pieces that perhaps build upon each other to produce the different outputs with different verbosities.

    Planet Ubuntu 2009

  • We might end up needing to have a couple of pieces to each class paragraph, pieces that perhaps build upon each other to produce the different outputs with different verbosities.

    Planet Ubuntu 2009

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