- that also
refer to the use of
excessive words.
Prolixity comes from
Latin prolixus, "extended".
Prolixity can also be used to
refer to the
length of a monologue...
-
Asterix is the only
villager who does not
believe Prolix's false prophecies. In the film,
Prolix manages to
escape with
stolen gold (which he conned...
- liqu- flow
Latin liquere deliquesce, liquefy, liqueur, liquid, liquor,
prolix lit- prayer,
supplication Gr**** λιτή (litḗ), λιτανεία (litaneía) litany...
- that it was "written out of hate" and
showed "remorseless
hectoring and
prolixity".
Whittaker Chambers wrote what was
later called the novel's most "notorious"...
- "excessive psychologising" and too-detailed naturalism. His
style was
deemed "
prolix,
repetitious and
lacking in polish, balance,
restraint and good taste"....
- his
diocesan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls;' and
though I may be
prolix and tedious, 'What, or how much, each man had, who was an
occupier of land...
-
Thomas M'Crie: 'Reverend fathers, my
letters were not wont
either to be so
prolix, or to
follow so
closely on one another. Want of time must
plead my excuse...
-
sense of
responsibility more acute, and
surely nowhere has it been more
prolix, than
among those who parti****ted in the
development of
atomic energy for...
-
Education of
Henry Adams, Mein
Kampf was "vapid, vain, rhetorical, diffuse,
prolix." However, he
added that "it is a
powerful and
moving book, the product...
-
livrent donc sur Azūgi que de brèves notices,
infiniment moins détaillées et
prolixes que
celles dont font l'objet, pour la même période et chez ces mêmes auteurs...
