Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TUR'GID-NESS
TUR'GID-NESS, n.
- A swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond its natural state by some internal force or agent, as in a limb.
- Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast; as, the turgidness of language or style.
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