[See next and -OSITY.]
1. The state of being voluminous in respect of literary production.
1782. T. Twining, in R. Twining, Recreat. & Stud. (1882), 115. Last night I received the Virg. MSS. Thanks again. I was astonished at our voluminosity.
1881. Academy, 5 March, 163/3. A reasonable mean is kept between the voluminosity of Kinglake and the curtness of Livy’s ‘this year there was war with the Hernicans and Volscians.’ Ibid. (1902), 16 Aug., 167/1. In point of voluminosity the Manchester Guardian easily outdid all competitors.
2. The fact of turning or winding; an instance of this.
1841. Blackw. Mag., L. 149. With what sublime … voluminosities it winds, and wreathes, and whirls, and rolls.
