logorrheic

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adjective
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Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words

Example: It was a long, logorrheic tale.
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Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.

1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495:

In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […

1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008:

I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.

2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post:

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