perissology
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Etymology edit
Latin perissologia, from Ancient Greek περισσός.
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Noun edit
perissology (countable and uncountable, plural perissologies)
- Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness.
- 1776, George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric:
- The reason assigned for saying koran and not alcoran, is truly curious. Al, say they, is the Arabic article, and signifies the; consequently, if we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross perissology. It is just as if we said the the book.