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Definition of Turgidness
1. Noun. Pompously embellished language.
Generic synonyms: Long-windedness, Prolixity, Prolixness, Windiness, Wordiness
Derivative terms: Turgid, Turgid
Definition of Turgidness
1. Noun. The condition of being turgid; turgidity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turgidness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turgidness
Literary usage of Turgidness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coleridge by Henry Duff Traill (1884)
"have been "rightly charged with a profusion of double epithets and a general
turgidness," and adds that he ha.s " pruned the double epithets with no sparing ..."
2. Fleming and Tibbins -- Abridged: A New and Complete French and English and by Charles Fleming, J. Tibbins, Charles Picot, Judah Dobson (1852)
"... sm turgidness, bombast Boursouflé, e, a. et i. bloated, ... Boursouflure, sf
bloatedness (of coun tenance), turgidness (of style). ..."
3. Sketch of the History and Cure of Febrile Diseases: Particular Ly as They by Robert Jackson (1817)
"Sometimes, besides general turgidness and disten- tion, blood effused from ...
In the phlegmatic habit, instead of turgidness and stagnation of red blood, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity. . . . When his
stanza forced him to lop off his vain superfluity of words, that the sense ..."
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