Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelling; tumid; rising into a tumor; puffy.
- Tumid; turgid; inflated; pompous; bombastic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid.
- adjective Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Rising into a
tumour or apuffy state;tumid . - adjective
Bombastic ;turgid ;pompous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the latest turgent episode of "As the Crumbling Newspaper Industry Turns," news broke that Jay Mariotti, the $300,000-a-year (give or take a few thousand) controversial sports columnist at my old newspaper, The Chicago Sun-Times, abruptly quit.
Esther J. Cepeda: Sun-Times' Gasping Leaves Us All Winded 2008
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Chrysostom, good men do not always find grace and favour, lest they should be puffed up with turgent titles, grow insolent and proud.
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The style of these epistles doth not a little weaken the credit of them, being turgent, swelling with uncouth words and phrases, affected manner and ways of expression, new compositions of words, multiplying titles of honour to men, — exceedingly remote and distant from the plainness and simplicity of the first writers among the Christians, as is evident by comparing these with the epistle of Clemens before mentioned, that of Polycarpus in
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Lemnius haec etiam gemmis exstruxit et auro admiscens artem pretio trabibusque smaragdi90 supposuit caesas hyacinthi rupe columnas. beryllo paries et iaspide lubrica surgunt limina despectusque solo calcatur achates. in medio glaebis redolentibus area diues praebet odoratas messis; hic mitis amomi, 95 hic casiae matura seges, Panchaeaque turgent cinnama, nec sicco frondescunt uimina costo tardaque sudanti prorepunt balsama riuo.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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Lege non vere agnoscunt: sed aut hypocritae fiunt, qui justitiae propriae opinione turgent, quales VII.
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Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.
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Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.
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Itaque peccata sua ex Lege non vere agnoscunt: sed aut hypocritae fiunt, qui justitiae propriae opinione turgent, quales: [11291] 1
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But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat — double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore — behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers.
A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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That he did not hope for this temper in his age, the humour on both sides being so turgent, and extremely contrary to it, and the controversy debated on both sides by those 'who,' saith he, '_desire to eternize, and not to compose contentions_,' and therefore makes his appeal to posterity, when this paroxysm shall be over.
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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