10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLIXNESS»
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prolixness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prolixness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel ...
1. Diffuse, wordy, verbose, loose, long, longspun, spunout, longwinded,
discursive, rambling, not concise. 2. Tiresome, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome.
Prolixity, n. Diffuseness, prolixness, verbosity, tedious length. Prolixness, n.
Prolixity.
2
Biographical Dictionary
A' great number of persons studied under him with profit, and I met in Egypt with
many of his former pupils. In his discourse he avoided prolixness ; never, on any
occasion, did he pronounce a word without necessity, and he never took his seat
...
Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-H̲allikān, William MacGuckin ¬de Slane, 1843
3
The Sunday School Teacher: Designed to Aid in Elevating and ...
Even ministers of the gospel, who ought of all men, to understand this, are often
complained of for being too long; and any man is in danger of falling into
prolixness, in proportion as he is unaccustomed to public speaking. One of the
deepest ...
... 205, 247, 248 Preamble (preamhulum), 33, 37, 146, 151 Prefigure, 57, 61, 67,
219 Prepositions, 73, 75, 155 Professions, 217, 221 Prolixness, 29, 179 Pronoun,
23 Proof, 7, 13, 19> 45> 59) 99> 117, 141, 145, 157, 159> 244) 250 Proof texts, ...
5
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime ...
I may be dispensed with dwelling upon the description of a ceremony, which the
Catholic historians * will do with equal prolixness and qomplacency. I did not
imagine I could belof any use at this time; therefore kept myself retired, as one
who ...
Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges, 1812
6
Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary
In his discourse he avoided prolixness; never, on any occasion, did he
pronounce a word without necessity, and he never took his seat to teach the
readings of the Koran without being in a state of purity (6), and assuming an air of
dignified ...
7
The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American ...
Spencer's high- Victorian prolixness purveyed evolution in ponderous tomes.
Huxley and Lubbock enthusiastically embraced evolution, both Spencer's and
Darwin's. Lubbock concluded his Pre-historic Times, "science boldly predicts [that
] ...
8
Dissertation, exhibiting a general view of the progress of ...
He adds, that, after trying the analysis in many different ways, he had found
nothing preferable to the solution of Alhazen, which he therefore gives, only freed
from the prolixness and obscurity with which the original is chargeable. Lecliones
...
John Playfair, James George Playfair, 1822
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The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review
As to the defects-, orrine other hand, the prolixness and obscurity, that have so
often been complained of in this - book, they seem to arise entirely from the
nature of the language ; for, in mathematics, common language can seldom be
applied, ...
10
Elements of geometry: containing the first six books of ...
As to the defects, the prolixness and obscurity that have so often been
complained of in the fifth Book, they seem to arise chiefly from the nature of the
language employed, which being no other than that of ordinary discourse, cannot
express, ...
John Playfair, Euclid, 1857
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLIXNESS»
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prolixness is used in the context of the following news items.
Merritt Tierce (The Bat Segundo Show #551)
Correspondent: I'm implying magic when it was probably just prolixness on my part. But essentially I was asking, “What is it about restaurants ... «Reluctant Habits, Sep 14»
September 2014
Correspondent: I'm implying magic when it was probably just prolixness on my part. But essentially I was asking, “What is it about restaurants ... «Reluctant Habits, Sep 14»
