Wordage

Near-synonym: language

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But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.

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Here, I think, we must class the portmanteau-wordage of James Joyce, in which the use of verbal and syllabic association is carried so far that its power of unconscious persuasion is lost and the reader’s response is diverted by a conscious ecstasy of enigma-hunting, like a pig rooting for truffles.

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The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.

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