(loquacity) 584; looseness.
Polylogy[obs3], tautology, battology[obs3], perissology|; pleonasm,
exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution,
ambages [obs3]; periphrase[obs3], periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode;
expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c. 577.
V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge,
dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.
maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
digress, ramble, battre la campagne[Fr][obs3], beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out;
battologize[obs3].
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome[obs3], long-winded,
longspun[obs3], long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing,
maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious[obs3], roundabout;
digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent,
frothy.
Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso[Lat]; about it and about
it.
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#574. Vigor. -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c. adj.;
intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve,
glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation,
loftiness, sublimity.
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