Altogether, tumidity seems particularly hard to avoid. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
No one can overlook its frequent tumidity and constant want of terseness. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbon] Reference
There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
The swelling diction of Aeschylus and Isaiah resembles that of Almanzor and Maximin no more than the tumidity of a muscle resembles the tumidity of a boil. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
If there be any thing in it approachs to tumidity (which I meant not to infer in elaborate: I meant simply labored) it is the Gigantic hyperbole by which you describe the Evils of existing society. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
"The whole language resembles the body of an artistically trained athlete, in which every muscle, every sinew, is developed into full play, where there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter, and all is power and life.". From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
The indocile and rude liberty of this scurvy member, is sufficiently remarkable by its importunate, unruly, and unseasonable tumidity and impatience at such times as we have nothing for it to do, and by its most unseasonable stupidity and disobedience when we stand most in need of its vigour, so imperiously contesting the authority of the will, and with so much obstinacy denying all solicitations of hand and fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
It's not the bleat, it's the tumidity. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
It's not defeat, it's the tumidity.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
"bloviation", "prolixity", "tumidity", and "wordiness". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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