Usage examples (35)

• I shall want the rest to lengthen out the 9th for which the business with Burgundy affords not enough materials. prolixity is always bad.
• -- Forgive my prolixity, which is yet too brief for all I could wish to say.
• I fancy, though, that I have said too much about him already, and my prolixity is the more uncalled for as he is not the hero of my story.
• The poem was reduced to twelve cantos, all its so-called prolixity was eliminated and it was revised in accordance with eighteenth century taste and made "reasonable and...