turgid
adjective
swollen; distended; tumid.
turgidness
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a word derived from
turgid.
Example Sentences
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All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
My poems have been rightly charged with a profusion of double-epithets, and a general turgidness.
From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by James Gillman
He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines: Oh, partner of my infant grief and joys!
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Paper colored by turmeric introduced into the other tube had its color much deepened; the acid matter gave a very slight degree of turgidness to solution of nitrate of soda.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
