rare. [f. WORD sb. + -AGE.] Words collectively; = VERBIAGE 1.
1829. Westm. Rev., X. April, 417. But the plates are good, and in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.
1858. Arnot, Laws from Heaven, Ser. II. 22. [The tongue] may revolve with the rapidity … of … machinery, throwing off … a continuous web of wordage.
1925. Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan., 33/6. If any newspaper man will divide his salary by his wordage he will find that only a few are needed to buy his lunch.
