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Tympanī′tis, inflammation of the membrane of the ear; Tym′pany, any swelling, turgidity: tympanites.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSWhat remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity.
SKETCH OF A NEW ESTHETIC OF MUSICFERRUCCIO BUSONIThe serenity and calm of Plato and Aristotle are gone, and in their place we have turgidity and extravagance.
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHYW. T. STACENo one can for a moment doubt that her feelings are real, but neither can the turgidity and bombast of her language be denied.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELLHe paced the floor in impatience while Mr. Turgidity blew the clouds of dust from precedent after precedent.
THE YOUNG MAN AND THE WORLDALBERT J. BEVERIDGEBut the tendency to turgidity may proceed from debility alone.
MEMOIR, CORRESPONDENCE, AND MISCELLANIES, FROM THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSONTHOMAS JEFFERSONThe turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IIIJOHN LORDCarlyle's weakest works are those that lose the honest simplicity of its style in a forced turgidity and affected roughness.
THE GREATEST ENGLISH CLASSICCLELAND BOYD MCAFEEWORDS RELATED TO TURGIDITY
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