What is "wordage"

Usage examples of "wordage".

But perhaps all his noble wordage as to why merely covered up the fact that he thought himself above them.

Clark, speaking aloud though with himself as sole audience and seated on the edge of his green-quilted mahogany fourposter bed in his room on Cabot Street, and in his pink-striped white-cotton nightshirt to boot, surveyed quizzically, by the light of the ornamental shaded oil lamp close by him, the black pellet of gum lying in the palm of his hand: the pellet grandiosely given him today, with voluminous wordage, by Jeb Polliver, ex-whaler, ex-African voyager, present garbage searcher and, probably, all-time liar of all liars.

I updated cultural and political references, polished away a few of the more egregious stylistic inadequacies, and trimmed excess wordage here and there.

The room was a madhouse, with ABA employees trying to herd the reporters and the reporters clearly wondering, more or less out loud, how they were going to manage to put together any kind of wordage at all.

The author should devote enough wordage to the heroine, other than what the hero thinks and feels about her, to let the reader get acquainted with her.

The amount of wordage a novelist devotes to describing a character, a setting, a place, or a thing depends on their importance to the plot or story line.

One can usually compute the wordage of a novel fairly accurately by multiplying the number of pages by 250.

The intercom sputtered to life and spat incomprehensible wordage into the station.

I could see him stalking away from the printer to the copydesk slot to chew his way viciously through wordage for the major splits.

For the past two decades his straight science articles and other works, ranging from Biblical commentary to learned discussions of Shakespeare, have outgrossed his science fiction wordage by a ratio of—at a guesstimate—something like a hundred to one.