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Turgidness

noun
1.
Pompously embellished language.  Synonyms: flatulence, turgidity.






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"Turgidness" Quotes from Famous Books



... process was examined: Paper tinged with litmus plunged into the tube containing the transmitting or positive wire was immediately strongly reddened. 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. The fluid that affected turmeric retained this property after being strongly boiled; and it appeared more vivid as the quantity became reduced by evaporation; carbonate of ammonia was mixed with it, and the whole dried and ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams



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