wordinessn.

1680 R. Baxter True Way Concord for Churches iii. ix. §19 And indeed, notwithstanding the tedious wordiness of it, it hath little in it..fully answered by Voetius.

1720 A. Hill Creation Pref. p. x Mr. Addison, whose Verses abound in Graces..shall be, often, found liable to an Overflow of his Meaning, by this Dropsical Wordiness.

1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated II. iii. 261 The wordiness of the French and even of the Latin, compared with the Scotch, is very evident.

1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. vii. x. 516 The empty wordiness of his factious subjects; their intemperate harangues..teach us to distrust and despise those clamorous patriots.

1862 J. Angus Handbk. Eng. Tongue 373 A copious phraseology is one cure of wordiness, and is essential to effective writing.

1902 Science 24 Jan. 134/1 The complaint lodged against the pompous, ungainly wordiness of a large part of the scientific writing of the day is that it is an obstacle to the spread of knowledge.

1998 J. Dunning On the Air 138 The Ovaltine commercials must surely have set endurance records for repetition and wordiness.