Prolixity Definition

Prolixity Sentence Examples

• To avoid dryness and prolixity he condensed quotations, and occasionally employed the Thucydidean method of abridgment or representation in place of fact catalogues.

• Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting work.

• Prayers and other formulas have been copied down by Sahagun and other chroniclers, of endless prolixity, but not without occasional touches of pathos.

• In spite of that, Lydgate is characteristically medieval - medieval in his prolixity, his platitude, his want of judgment and his want of taste; medieval also in his pessimism, his Mariolatry and his horror of death.

• His prolixity was increased by his unwillingness, when writing without prescribed limits, to leave out any detail, however unimportant.