Meaning of wordfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

Wordiness; verbosity; verboseness.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“So far as he has yet gone in Parliament it is impossible to forget that the Bill is his Brief, and whether it be of less or greater importance, he speaks with the same conscientious preparation, and identically the same impressive wordfulness.”

“This volume is, in its way, a masterpiece of erudition ; it mingles flashes of beauty with wordfulness and meaningless exposition and, as the reviewer intimated at the beginning, reaches, as deductions, the presuppositions with which it starts out—conclusions which, however, were made more persuasive in the simpler words of Jesus.”

“Clearly some spelling errors must arise from the operation of this system but the relative paucity of spelling errors resulting in non-words indicates that the outcome of the rules is checked for appropriate pronunciation and for wordfulness.”

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