pro·lix

(prō-lĭks′, prō′lĭks′)

adj.

1. Tediously prolonged; wordy: editing a prolix manuscript.

2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length. See Synonyms at wordy.

[Middle English, from Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus, poured forth, extended.]

pro·lix′i·ty (-lĭk′sĭ-tē) n.

pro·lix′ly adv.

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References in periodicals archive

They avoid the courts because the universalistic legal rules do not fit hierarchical Japan, Kawashima more prolixly explained.

John Haley and the American discovery of Japanese law

He prolixly lists his sources and precursors in the explicatory prefaces and afterwords of his fictions, generously mapping influences of the most varied origins.

James Joyce, author of "Funes el memorioso"

A less famous passage in Democracy in America more prolixly asserts that virtually all national political questions in the United States are resolved into national judicial questions adjudicated by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Resolving political questions into judicial questions: Tocqueville's thesis revisited

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