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Definition of Sesquipedality
1. Noun. Using long words.
Definition of Sesquipedality
1. n. The quality or condition of being sesquipedal.
Definition of Sesquipedality
1. Noun. An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sesquipedality
Literary usage of Sesquipedality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1884)
"His greenish back is the leaf, and his yellow throat, the flower, even in form,
with his sesquipedality of ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"How allied to a pad in place, in color, —for his greenish back is the leaf and
his yellow throat the flower, — even in form, with his sesquipedality of ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1894)
"His greenish back is the leaf, and his yellow throat, the flower, even in form,
with his sesquipedality of belly. Through the summer he lies on the pads or ..."
4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back and a sesquipedality
of belly which might have done honour to a sergeant in the Horse Guards. ..."
5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"... squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half
perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, ..."
6. Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays by Samuel McChord Crothers (1916)
"One might mount to the summit of sesquipedality and yet on his.return to the
lower level fall into a crevasse that yawned between e and /'. ..."
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