perissology
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /pɛ.ɹɪˈsɒ.lə.dʒi/
Noun

perissology

  1. Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness.
    • 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.
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