Battology

/bæˈtɑː.lə.d͡ʒi/

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Logomachy, battology, jingling of words, are all these fine speeches!

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This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words."

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For Watt's sense of chronology was strong, in a way, and his dislike of battology was very strong.

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Thus he objected to the battology of the Nicene Creed, 'God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,' because, he said, it 'adds neither to the emphasis nor the expressiveness of the document.'

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