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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verbiage
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cut out the excess verbiage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the first bout of verbiage I disappeared inside my room and slept for a day.
▪ Comprehension of the modern city's altered state is rarely apparent in much of the verbiage currently expended on urban architecture.
▪ Dominic has always had a flair for appropriating snippets of verbiage.
▪ MacDonald, had he still been Prime Minister, would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity.
▪ Nobody is seriously being invited to stand on top of the mountain of verbiage and get an overview.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verbiage

Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.] The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
--W. Irving.

This barren verbiage current among men.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verbiage

"abundance of words," 1721, from French verbiage "wordiness" (17c.), from Middle French verbier "to chatter," from Old French verbe "word," from Latin verbum "word" (see verb).

Wiktionary
verbiage

n. 1 overabundance of words 2 (US) The manner in which something is expressed in words;

WordNet
verbiage

  1. n. overabundance of words

  2. the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words]

Usage examples of "verbiage".

I have read plenty of ancient verbiage on that subject, I have read likewise most of what has been said by modern writers, but neither all that has been said, nor what I have thought about it, when I was young and now that I am no longer so, nothing, in fact, can make me agree that love is a trifling vanity.

Conscious, indeed, that a mere act of private resignation would have no significance to the body politic, nor any deflecting influence on the national life, I have chosen rather to disappear in blue flame, so that every Englishman may take to heart my lesson, and learn from my strange fate how to be himself uninfluenced by the verbiage of others.

The play was a satire on pedantry, and its complicated verbiage and intrusive Latinity would appeal to the sense of humor of the educated.

Yet both of them were speaking learnedly of meteors, prissily drawing the distinction between meteor and meteorite, smothering any anxiety in a torrent of comforting verbiage.

Well, think of how fi-equently you see the words sale, value, service, quality and other overused, flat, forgotten marketing verbiage that no one truly hears or registers anymore.

I have read plenty of ancient verbiage on that subject, I have read likewise most of what has been said by modern writers, but neither all that has been said, nor what I have thought about it, when I was young and now that I am no longer so, nothing, in fact, can make me agree that love is a trifling vanity.

Did that turgid bouillabaisse of un-semantic verbiage have significance, or was it only stalling for time?

Chop out the political bumpf and verbiage and the unfounded speculation.

The language of diplomacy appeared to be rooted in both the new and old forms, comprising more sign than was used by Big Eyes—which bored her and the other young members of the council—and more verbiage than Keff's version, which confused the brawn.

They aren’t around anymore, but the Glibs and the Higginists were both in reaction to all the politically correct verbiage of the other groups.

These pieces of paper were so vital to the working of the Empire, they were like water, food, or air to a soldier, and an official document would carry more power in its words than any courtier posturing and spouting similar verbiage.