[f. LENGTHY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being lengthy; prolixity.

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[1812.  I. Pollexfen, in Examiner, 28 Dec., 828/2. (In pseudo-archaic spelling) If the pledyng bee of ordynarie longthynesse.]

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1829.  Bentham, Justice & Cod. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice, 31. In lengthiness of delay … vying with … the equity courts.

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1863.  Lytton, Caxtoniana, I. ix. 144. Oratory, like the Drama, abhors lengthiness.

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1871.  Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, § 658. If we want to see lengthiness of language carried out to an extreme and exaggerated development.

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1875.  Maskell, Ivories, v. 44. Characterised by sharpness and meagreness of form, and lengthiness of proportion.

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