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Significats de turgidity en anglès

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Pompously embellished language.

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Ús de turgidity en anglès
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The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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The turgidity of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.
The Irish Times
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His odes have the turgidity without the grandeur of Gray's.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3
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But the tendency to turgidity may proceed from debility alone.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into turgidity, obscurity, and nonsense.
Literary and Social Essays
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In some of the provers active inflammatory congestion of the right lung ensued, with turgidity of the liver.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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The phenomenal success to which he subsequently rose was characteristic of the prevailing turgidity and confusion of the popular mind.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
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Or they represent and share the turgidity of the minds they interpret, like some of the work of Walt Whitman.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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Carlyle's weakest works are those that lose the honest simplicity of its style in a forced turgidity and affected roughness.
The Greatest English Classic / A Study of the King James Version...
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In his estimation, turgidity passes for eloquence, and simplicity is but another name for that which is weak and unmeaning.
The Verbalist / A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Rig...
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All plant tissues are mostly water, and require a humid atmosphere to avoid drying out, losing turgidity, and damaging their internal systems.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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No one can for a moment doubt that her feelings are real, but neither can the turgidity and bombast of her language be denied.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Turgidity was absent, but at a price.
The Irish Times
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He paced the floor in impatience while Mr. Turgidity blew the clouds of dust from precedent after precedent.
The Young Man and the World
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The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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The turgidity of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.
The Irish Times
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Turgidity a través del temps