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Meanings of verbosity in English
Portuguese
verbosidade Catalan
verbositat Russian
говорливость Spanish
verbosidad Synonyms
Examples for "pleonasm"
Examples for "pleonasm"
1
This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated.
2
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm.
3
One of them says of him with injurious pleonasm, that he "talked too much with his mouth."
4
My hope was therefore great when I saw, in reading the Greek, that the shifting of a period would rid me of the pleonasm.
5
The most vigorous writers are liable, in unguarded moments, to lapse into verbal weakness, and so you meet with this vulgar pleonasm in Ruskin.
Usage of verbosity in English
1
We Irish are known for our love of words, for our verbosity.
2
For a man who writes in a code must perforce avoid verbosity.
3
Apparently, Theo's short stint of verbosity had come to an end.
4
He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines:
5
The Government, too, was issuing communications of vague and rhetorical verbosity.
6
He clapped his hands loud enough to cut through Tabitha's verbosity.
7
Reading the transmitted decree, Josef shook his head at its verbosity and folly.
8
It is exempt from verbosity; it considers only good results.
9
He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
10
They exchanged excuses and caresses with oriental demonstrativeness and verbosity.
11
This increases the verbosity of the plugin for debugging purposes.
12
Whose writing was that upon the broad marge of verbosity?
13
Imagine the verbosity of the viragos were her husband to make a similar call!
14
The extracts from this author are intended to exhibit the dangers of verbosity and exaggeration.
15
The resolutions are noteworthy for their verbosity and entire absence of moderate and wise suggestion.
16
He was not very talkative-onlypersons of inconstant ideas and unstable judgment are prone to verbosity.
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Verbosity through the time