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Meanings of
turgidity
in inglés
portugués
flatulência
catalán
turgència
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Pompously embellished language.
flatulence
turgidness
portugués
flatulência
Usage of
turgidity
in inglés
1
The
turgidity
and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
2
The
turgidity
of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.
3
His odes have the
turgidity
without the grandeur of Gray's.
4
But the tendency to
turgidity
may proceed from debility alone.
5
There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into
turgidity
,
obscurity, and nonsense.
6
In some of the provers active inflammatory congestion of the right lung ensued, with
turgidity
of the liver.
7
The phenomenal success to which he subsequently rose was characteristic of the prevailing
turgidity
and confusion of the popular mind.
8
Or they represent and share the
turgidity
of the minds they interpret, like some of the work of Walt Whitman.
9
Carlyle's weakest works are those that lose the honest simplicity of its style in a forced
turgidity
and affected roughness.
10
In his estimation,
turgidity
passes for eloquence, and simplicity is but another name for that which is weak and unmeaning.
11
All plant tissues are mostly water, and require a humid atmosphere to avoid drying out, losing
turgidity
,
and damaging their internal systems.
12
No one can for a moment doubt that her feelings are real, but neither can the
turgidity
and bombast of her language be denied.
13
Turgidity
was absent, but at a price.
14
He paced the floor in impatience while Mr.
Turgidity
blew the clouds of dust from precedent after precedent.
15
The
turgidity
and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
16
The
turgidity
of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.
Other examples for "turgidity"
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turgidity
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
force turgidity
have the turgidity
lose turgidity
prevailing turgidity
strain into turgidity
Translations for
turgidity
portugués
flatulência
catalán
turgència
Turgidity
through the time