单词 | wordily |
释义 | wordilyadv. In a wordy manner or style; with an excess or abundance of words; verbosely. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > verbosely diffuselya1425 verboselya1425 wordily1522 diffusedly1568 discoursively1610 wordishly1657 diffusively1787 verbose1791 1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.vv The kynge of wrathe full wordely..wyll me mayntayne. 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth ii. lxviii Some wordy-men..raught at Rethorikes Rules to rule thereby:..they rul'd wordily. 1702 E. Calamy Abridgm. Baxter's Life & Times x. 564 This Article of the Controversie hath been manag'd very Wordily. 1837 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. Apr. 322 The point is very wordily discussed to very little purpose. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 32 Sophists and rhetoricians begin to flourish and everything that can be wordily elaborated, is grist for their mill. 1914 H. C. Vedder Reformation in Germany i. iii. 66 It was his duty to silence those who wordily contended about idle and sophistical questions. 1941 R. A. Heinlein Let. 6 Sept. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 13 I have gone on, wordily, because it is important to me that you should understand my motives. 2004 Seattle Times (Nexis) 8 July g3 The Northwest Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention, known less wordily as the Arlington Air Show. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1522 |
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