Meaning of perissology | Babel Free

Definitions

Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The reason assigned for saying koran and not alcoran, is truly curious. Al, say they, is the Arabic article, and signifies the; consequently, if we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross perissology. It is just as if we said the the book.”

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