[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The character or quality of being verbose; verbosity.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Verbosness, the using many Words, Fulness of Words, Prolixity in Discourse.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. 73. I don’t often gratify him … with giving him the praise for his verboseness.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, George II. (1847), II. xi. 378. When his verboseness did not persuade, he quickened it with impertinence.
1843. Fraser’s Mag., XXVIII. 73. He has been mesmerised into a mystical verboseness without positive thought.
