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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERB'IAGE, n. Verbosity; use of many words without necessity; superabundance of words.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: overabundance of words [syn: verbiage, verbalism]
2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Middle French verbier to chatter, alteration of Old French verboier, verbloier, from Old French (Picard dialect) werbler to trill — more at warble Date: circa 1721 1. a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content <such a tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform — Marcia Davenport> 2. manner of expressing oneself in words ; diction <sportswriters guarded their verbiage so jealously — R. A. Sokolov>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. needless accumulation of words; verbosity. Etymology: F f. obs. verbeier chatter f. verbe word: see VERB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Verbiage Ver"bi*age (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.] The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. --W. Irving. This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you refer to someone's speech or writing as verbiage, you are critical of them because they use too many words, which makes their speech or writing difficult to understand. (FORMAL) Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred. = waffle [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Wordiness, verboseness, verbosity, prolixity, diffuseness.

Moby Thesaurus

choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words