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turgidity

[ UK /tɜːd‍ʒˈɪdɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. pompously embellished language

How To Use turgidity In A Sentence

  • After suggesting an analogy between the disease and the redness and turgidity of the neck produced by passion or in singing, he adds that some cases are due to an accumulation of spongy tissue between the veins and arteries, or to the use of flatulent food, and he even tells us that some old women know how to produce and remove goitrous swellings by means of certain suitable herbs known to them. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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