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Prolix adj.

Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. "With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist."

Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; applied to a speaker or writer.

Synonyms: Long; diffuse; prolonged; protracted; tedious; tiresome; wearisome. Prolix, Diffuse. A prolix writer delights in circumlocution, extended detail, and trifling particulars. A diffuse writer is fond of amplifying, and abounds in epithets, figures, and illustrations. Diffuseness often arises from an exuberance of imagination; prolixity is generally connected with a want of it.

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... enough, but he is fond of the sound of his own voice, his style is prolix, and I don't ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... not have gone into this prolix detail of opinions from any consideration of their special importance on the present occasion; but having happened to state that such was the actual opinion of the government of England at the present time, and the accuracy ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... writer and the poet. It is easier to give the instance than the reason, but I suppose the cause of the rhythmetical impotence must lie somewhere in the want of the power of concentration. For is it not true that the most prolix poet is capable of briefer expression than the least prolix prose writer, or ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... quotation. He loved poetry passionately, and the sympathetic voice with which he would recall page after page of it—English, French, German, or Italian—is a thing always to be remembered. But notwithstanding the instructive part he played in every conceivable conversation, he was never prolix, ...

— Memories and Studies • William James

... of the schism, of the charges of the Greeks against the Latins, are deposited in the epistles of Photius, (Epist Encyclica, ii. p. 47—61,) and of Michael Cerularius, (Canisii Antiq. Lectiones, tom. iii. p. i. p. 281—324, edit. Basnage, with the prolix ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

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